Reading Science
Taylor & Francis

Reading Science

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Literature, Literature & literary studies
ISBN13: 9780415167895
Published: 12 Mar 1998

Format - Hardback
By J.R. Martin

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Reading Science

Regular price A$227.20
Sale price A$227.20 Regular price A$284.00
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Reading Sciencelooks at the distinctive language of science and technology and the role it plays in building up scientific understandings of the world. It brings together discourse analysis and critical theory for the first time in a single volumeThis edited collection examines science discourse from a number of perspectives, drawing on new rhetoric, functional linguistics and critical theory. It explores this language in research and industrial contexts as well as in educational settings and in popular science writing and science fiction. The papers also include consideration of the role of images (tables and figures) in science writing and the importance of reading science discourse as multi-modal textThe internationally renowned contributors include M. A. K. Halliday, Charles Bazerman and Jay Lemke.

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