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UNINA9910892904903321 |
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Bangladesh rice journal |
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Gazipur, Bangladesh, : Bangladesh Rice Research Institute |
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Periodico |
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UNINA9910971096403321 |
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Lassen Inger <1951-> |
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Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals : a survey of style and grammatical metaphor / / Inger Lassen |
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Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub., 2003 |
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9786612254505 |
9789027296825 |
9027296820 |
9781282254503 |
1282254502 |
9781423761372 |
1423761375 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Document design companion series, , 1568-1963 ; ; v. 4 |
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Disciplina |
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Technical writing |
Technical manuals |
Readability (Literary style) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Symbols -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Research disciplines and methods -- Chapter 2. Field, Tenor and Mode dimensions -- Chapter 3. Register analysis -- Chapter 4. Categorizing text through genre analysis -- Chapter 5. Research methods and survey -- Chapter 6. Information structure -- Chapter 7. The technical manual as social semiotic -- Chapter 8. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Survey of writing style in technical manuals -- Name index -- Subject index. |
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Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of utility texts and how these texts are received and understood by a multifaceted audience. Accessibility is not a new research area and many explanations have been offered over the past years as to why non-experts often have difficulties in comprehending texts written by technological experts. This book offers a new approach to accessibility studies by exploring not only style, but also attitudes to style, by asking text consumers which style they prefer for different parts of the manual. A key role is played by the Systemic Functional Linguistics' notion of grammatical metaphor, a stylistic choice that is commonly used in technical literature. Grammatical metaphor - although apparently obstructing the comprehension process of some readers - is a common element in the preferred style that separates the 'insiders' from the 'outsiders'. An explanation of this rather surprising result is offered by resorting to Critical Discourse Analysis. |
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