Analysing Scientific Discourse from a Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective: A Framework for Exploring Knowledge Building in Biology

ISBN-13: 9781032238715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 286 str.

Jing Hao

Opis

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This volume challenges and extends previous approaches from systemic functional linguistics to understand the language of science and knowledge building from a linguistic perspective.

Spis treści

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xi

Acknowledgements xiii

SECTION I

Motivation and Background 1

1 A Linguistic Perspective on Knowledge-Building 3

2 A Multistratal Perspective on Knowledge-Building 23

SECTION II

Describing Ideational Discourse Semantics 53

3 Entity 55

4 Dimensionality 80

5 Figure 91

6 Grammatical Metaphor 114

7 Sequence, Activity and Field 145

SECTION III

Knowledge-Building in Undergraduate Biology 163

8 A Static Perspective: Construing Taxonomy 165

9 A Dynamic Perspective: Construing Activities 194

Contents

viii Contents

SECTION IV

Conclusion 225

10 Describing Language, Describing Knowledge 227

Bibliography 241

Appendix A Data Texts and Their Subject Areas 253

Appendix B Sample Texts and Genre Analysis 255

Appendix C List of Symbols and Abbreviations 265

Appendix D Annotations 267

Index 268

O autorze

Dr Jing Hao is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, following her previous postdoctoral position at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and her doctorate in linguistics at the University of Sydney. Her research explores knowledgebuilding through English and Mandarin Chinese and their interaction with other semiotic modes.