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

Ann Montemayor-Borsinger

ISBN 10: 3838372174 / ISBN 13: 9783838372174

Editore: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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• Titolo: Language choices in scientific discourse: : a qualitative analysis from a systemic functional perspective
• Editore: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3838372174
• ISBN 13: 9783838372174
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 220 L x 150 A x 6 P (millimetri) 220 millimetri di larghezza per 150 millimetri di altezza per 6 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 167 grammi

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Riassunto

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.

L'autore

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.