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David Banks

The Development of Scientific Writing

Linguistic Features and Historical Context

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This book is one of the first applications of a functional approach to language across time. It first summarizes and evaluates previous studies of the development of scientific language, including Halliday's exploration of this fascinating topic. It then traces the development of scientific writing as a genre, in terms of its linguistic features, from Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe (the first technical text written in English) almost to the present. It goes on to consider texts by major scientists of the late seventeenth century, and then analyses and discusses a corpus of texts taken from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soci… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84553-317-5
  • EAN: 9781845533175
  • Produktnummer: 23107834
  • Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.2 cm 360 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 360

Über den Autor


David Banks has been working as a freelance cartoonist for some 20 years, supplying cartoons to national and local press as well as magazines, websites and comics. He lives in Colchester with his wife and two daughters. His hobbies include bull-baiting, paragliding and flower arranging and his favorite soft drink is lager. His ambition is to become a radio cartoonist.

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