The Language of Science
Volume 5
Published on 20. June 2004
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-8264-5871-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 characterizes language.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5871-1 (9780826458711)
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Persons
Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association's journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.
Content
Introduction - On the power of language; Language and the reshaping of human experience; Language and knowledge: the 'unpacking' of text; Things and relations: regrammaticizing experience as technical knowledge; The grammatical construction of scientific knowledge: the framing of the English clause; On the language of physical science; Some grammatical problems in scientific English; On the grammar of scientific English; Writing Science: literacy and discursive power