Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals : a survey of style and grammatical metaphor / / Inger Lassen
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| Autore: |
Lassen Inger <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals : a survey of style and grammatical metaphor / / Inger Lassen
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub., 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808/.0666 |
| Soggetto topico: | Technical writing |
| Technical manuals | |
| Readability (Literary style) | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals |
| ISBN: | 9786612254505 |
| 9789027296825 | |
| 9027296820 | |
| 9781282254503 | |
| 1282254502 | |
| 9781423761372 | |
| 1423761375 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910971096403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Document design companion series ; ; v. 4.