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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810696203321

Autore

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

Titolo

The language of science / / M.A.K. Halliday ; edited by Jonathan J. Webster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London, : Continuum, 2004

ISBN

1-281-29848-4

9786611298487

1-84714-105-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

The collected works of M.A.K. Halliday ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

WebsterJonathan <1955->

Disciplina

501/.4

Soggetti

Communication in science

Science - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: How Big is a Language? On the Power of Language; PART ONE: GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR; Editor's Introduction; 1 Language and the Reshaping of Human Experience; 2 Language and Knowledge: the 'Unpacking' of Text; 3 Things and Relations: Regrammaticizing Experience as Technical Knowledge; 4 The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause; PART TWO: SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH; Editor's Introduction; 5 On the Language of Physical Science; 6 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English

7 On the Grammar of Scientific English8 Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power; Bibliography; Index; C; E; L; N; S; T; W

Sommario/riassunto

The fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, The Language of Science explores "the semantic character of scientific discourse". The chapters are organized into two sections, one being on grammatical metaphor; the other dealing with scientific English. In language, there exists the potential for constructing new discourses, among them scientific discourse. The volume opens with a new work from Professor Halliday addressing the question, "How big is a language?" It is a question that goes to the heart of the paradigmatic complexity, or meaning potential, that characteriz