Analysing Scientific Discourse from A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective

Download or read book Analysing Scientific Discourse from A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective written by Jing Hao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The description reveals co-textual patterns of language features, their expressions through grammatical resources, as well as their functions in the disciplinary context. The book also applies the description to analyse student texts in undergraduate biology, revealing characteristics of language and knowledge development. Although the discussion in this book focuses on the discourse of biology, both the language description and the descriptive principle can be used to inform the examination of knowledge in academic discourse in general, making this key reading for students and researchers in systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, English for academic purposes, applied linguistics, and science education.