Writing Science: Literacy And Discursive Power - Softcover

9780750700467: Writing Science: Literacy And Discursive Power

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750700467 ISBN 13: 9780750700467

Publisher: CRC Press, 1994

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to educators involved with linguistics and/or science curriculum and teachers of English for special and academic purposes. It is aimed at teachers of undergraduates in science and literacy, linguists teaching in English for special and academic purposes and students in higher education with an interest in science and literacy.

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Brings together and thus summarizes two important lines of investigation and theoretical innovation within systemic linguistics for dealing with the language of science. " ARIS Bulletin"" "Brings together and thus summarizes two important lines of investigation and theoretical innovation within systemic linguistics for dealing with the language of science." "--ARIS Bulletin"

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