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The development of scientific writing : linguistic features and historical context

Author: David Banks
Publisher: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2008.
Series: Discussions in functional approaches to language
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book is one of the first applications of a functional approach to language across time. It first summarizes and evaluates previous studies of the development of scientific language, including M. A. K Halliday's exploration of this fascinating topic. It then traces the development of scientific writing as a genre, in terms of its linguistic features, from Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe (the first technical  Read more...
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Banks, David, 1943-
Development of scientific writing.
London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2008
(OCoLC)649152800
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Banks
ISBN: 9781845533168 9781845533175 184553316X 1845533178
OCLC Number: 122309363
Description: 221 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Diachronic study of scientific text --
Systemic Functional Linguistics --
a suitable framework --
Thematic structure --
Grammatical metaphor --
Part 1: From Chaucer to Newton --
1. Beginning with Chaucer --
Where it all began --
The Passive --
Personal pronouns --
Nominalization --
2. Between Chaucer and Newton --
A troubled period --
Francis Bacon --
Robert Boyle --
Henry Power and Robert Hooke --
Experimental and descriptive sciences --
3. The Royal Society and Newton --
The place of the Royal Society and its Philosophical Transactions --
Newton --
Newton and the influence of Latin --
Newton and Huygens --
Part 2: The intervening centuries --
4. A way forward --
Two centuries of increasing nominalization --
The corpus --
5 Passives --
Increasing use of passives --
Passives and process types --
6 First person pronoun Subjects --
A rare phenomenon --
The eighteenth century situation --
Continuation in the nineteenth century --
The twentieth century: a radical change --
7. Nominalization --
Nominalizing processes --
Experiment --
Nominalized processes as Modifiers --
8. Thematic Structure --
Motivation for the passive --
The Grammatical Functions of Topical Themes --
Textual Themes --
Interpersonal Themes --
Thematic progression --
9. The semantic nature of Themes --
A typology of Themes --
Minor types of Theme --
Features of the experiment --
The human element --
Textual reference --
Mathematics --
10. An Interpersonal coda --
Ancients and Moderns --
Epistolary framing --
Praise --
Criticism --
Community --
Provenance --
Referencing --
Appendix 1 --
Appendix 2.
Series Title: Discussions in functional approaches to language
Responsibility: David Banks.
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Traces the development of the scientific journal article as a linguistic genre in terms of its linguistic features. This book looks at Chaucer's "Treatise on the Astrolabe", as the first technical  Read more...

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