The Language of Science Volume 5,9780826458711

The Language of Science Volume 5

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ISBN13: 9780826458711
ISBN10: 0826458718
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-06-22
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

M. A. K. Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was trained in Chinese for war service with the British Army, studied in China, taught Chinese in Britain for a number of years, then moved into linguistics, becoming in 1965 Professor of General Linguistics at University College London Jonathan J. Webster received his PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently Acting Head, Department of Chinese. Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean (Research and Administration), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the City University of Hong Kong

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: How Big is a Language?
On the Power of Language
xi
PART ONE GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR 1(134)
Editor's Introduction
3(4)
1 Language and the Reshaping of Human Experience
7(17)
2 Language and Knowledge: the 'Unpacking' of Text
24(25)
3 Things and Relations: Regrammaticizing Experience as Technical Knowledge
49(53)
4 The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause
102(33)
PART TWO SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH 135(92)
Editor's Introduction
137(3)
5 On the Language of Physical Science
140(19)
6 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English
159(22)
7 On the Grammar of Scientific English
181(18)
8 Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power
199(28)
Bibliography 227(10)
Index 237

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