Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)

by M. A. K. Halliday

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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 show more 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. show less

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M. A. K. Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was trained in Chinese for war service with the British Army; studied in China, taught Chinese in Britain for a number of years, then moved into linguistics, becoming in 1965 Professor of General Linguistics at University College London. In 1975 he was appointed Foundation Professor of show more Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement Jonathan Webster received his PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently Acting Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean (Research and Administration), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the City University of Hong Kong show less

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Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology
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302.2Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologyMass Communication & MediaCommunication
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T11 .H25TechnologyTechnology (General)Communication of technical information
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