
The Language of Science
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: How Big is a Language? On the Power of Language
- PART ONE: GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR
- Editor's Introduction
- 1 Language and the Reshaping of Human Experience
- 2 Language and Knowledge: the 'Unpacking' of Text
- 3 Things and Relations: Regrammaticizing Experience as Technical Knowledge
- 4 The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause
- PART TWO: SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH
- Editor's Introduction
- 5 On the Language of Physical Science
- 6 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English
- 7 On the Grammar of Scientific English
- 8 Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power
- Bibliography
- Index
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