Language choices in scientific discourse:: a qualitative analysis from a systemic functional perspective - Softcover

Montemayor-Borsinger, Ann

 
9783838372174: Language choices in scientific discourse:: a qualitative analysis from a systemic functional perspective
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3838372174 ISBN 13: 9783838372174
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Over the past years, the core concept of "language as choice" has gathered renewed importance in the analysis of scientific discourse from a systemic functional perspective. With this increase in interest has also come a rise in the need for qualitative work that illustrates in detail what kind of discourse options have been made in successful texts. Academic literature has also increasingly focused on different genres in different areas of science. The purpose of this book is to provide answers to questions such as what criteria are used by scientists when evaluating texts form their own research field, and how these criteria can be related to linguistic features such as Theme-Rheme structures. The book also inquires on what aspects of language novice researchers should be aware of in their own writing, and how can awareness of these language aspects be raised. It considers different writing "models" that are not to be taken as immutable blueprints, but as illustrations of how results can be presented, and as a basis upon which more personal ways of writing can be explored.

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Reseña del editor

Over the past years, the core concept of "language as choice" has gathered renewed importance in the analysis of scientific discourse from a systemic functional perspective. With this increase in interest has also come a rise in the need for qualitative work that illustrates in detail what kind of discourse options have been made in successful texts. Academic literature has also increasingly focused on different genres in different areas of science. The purpose of this book is to provide answers to questions such as what criteria are used by scientists when evaluating texts form their own research field, and how these criteria can be related to linguistic features such as Theme-Rheme structures. The book also inquires on what aspects of language novice researchers should be aware of in their own writing, and how can awareness of these language aspects be raised. It considers different writing "models" that are not to be taken as immutable blueprints, but as illustrations of how results can be presented, and as a basis upon which more personal ways of writing can be explored.

Biografía del autor

Ann Montemayor-Borsinger, Lic (Geneva), MEd (Bristol), PhD(Glasgow), is currently Professor of Linguistics at UniversidadNacional de Río Negro, Argentina. She also works at InstitutoBalseiro, UNCuyo, a research center for physics and engineering.Her research and publications focus on institutional discoursesand Systemic Functional Linguistics.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3838372174
ISBN 13 
9783838372174
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
100
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