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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783177903321

Autore

Halliday M. A. K (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), <1925, >

Titolo

Writing science : literacy and discursive power / / M.A.K. Halliday and J.R. Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Falmer Press : , : Taylor & Francis Inc., , 1993

ISBN

1-135-72304-4

981-3083-22-0

1-135-72305-2

1-138-99758-7

0-7507-0046-7

1-280-06705-5

0-203-20993-1

9786610067053

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Critical perspectives on literacy and education

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinJ. R. <1950->

Disciplina

302.2

Soggetti

Science - Language

Communication in science

Scientific literature

Technical writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 268-280.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Series Editor's Introduction; Introduction: The Discursive Technology of Science; Chapter 1 General Orientation; Chapter 2 The Model; Part 1 Professional Literacy: Construing Nature; Introduction; Chapter 3 On the Language of Physical Science; Chapter 4 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English; Chapter 5 The Construction of Knowledge and Value in the Grammar of Scientific Discourse: Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species; Chapter 6 Language and the Order of Nature

Chapter 7 The Analysis of Scientific Texts in English and ChinesePart 2 School Literacy: Construing Knowledge; Introduction; Chapter 8 The Discourse of Geography: Ordering and Explaining the Experiential



World; Chapter 9 Literacy in Science: Learning to Handle Text as Technology; Chapter 10 Technicality and Abstraction: Language for the Creation of Specialized Texts; Chapter 11 Life as a Noun: Arresting the Universe in Science and Humanities; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to educators involved with linguistics and/or science curriculum and teachers of English for special and academic purposes.; It is aimed at teachers of undergraduates in science and literacy, linguists tea