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Date of publication Jun 21, 2004 Category: Article
Language change in scientific discourse
Halliday has demonstrated that changes in discourse function covary with changes in the grammatical resources a language makes available to construe discourse. Specifically, he outlined the ways in which nominalisation evolved as a resource for construing scientific reality as a world of logical relations among abstract entities. In the present article,
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Metaphor and approximation of the world
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
The metaphors, Golden Gates that move the categories of our world
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Metaphors and science communication
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Against the metaphor
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Elements for a geography of the metaphor in science
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2003 Category: Article
Tropes, science and communication
Compared to expert-to-expert - or peer-to-peer - communication, the language of popular science is characterised by a wider use of figurative devices. This applies to all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication. Specialized texts are characterised by a restricted and rigorous lexicon both in spoken and - even more so - in written language. Namely, a widespread use of terms which are monosemic, unambiguous and non context-dependent terms, and a minimum amount of natural linguistic choices. The few polysemic, ambiguous and context-dependent words encountered in a scientific text are highly functional, since meaning is mainly conveyed through field-specific terms. The same rules apply to the iconography of a scientific text, where most pictures are graphs, diagrams or schemes. Their purpose is to give the reader a visual photo-like equivalent of the concepts discussed in the text. These images are all the more effective thanks to the use of colours, external references, highlighting and other devices, which make them functional to their explanatory purpose.
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2002 Category: Commentary
Eight points about science communication
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