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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122309363 Title: The development of scientific writing : linguistic features and historical context Author: David Banks Publisher: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9781845533168 9781845533175 184553316X 1845533178 OCLC:122309363

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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 : English
Summary:	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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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: 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 Find more information about:
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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