The Language of Science: Volume 5

by M.a.k. Halliday

2020-12-29 22:09:58

The fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, The Language of Science explores the semantic character of scientific discourse. The chapters are organized into two sections, one being on grammatical metaphor; the other dealing ... Read more
The fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, The Language of Science explores the semantic character of scientific discourse. The chapters are organized into two sections, one being on grammatical metaphor; the other dealing with scientific English. In language, there exists the potential for constructing new discourses, among them scientific discourse. The volume opens with a new work from Professor Halliday addressing the question, How big is a language? It is a question that goes to the heart of the paradigmatic complexity, or meaning potential, that characterizes language Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
Print pages268
PublisherBloomsbury
Publication date June 22, 2004
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780826458711
M.A.K. HALLIDAY is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.CHRISTIAN M.I.M. MATTHIESSEN is Chair Professor of the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities at...

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