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This book is a collection of essays that look at the language of science and technology and how it contributes to the building of scientific understandings of the world. The essays are written by experts in the field and cover a variety of topics, including the importance of images in science writing, the role of critical theory in science discourse, and more.
Presented in a generous, theoretically integrative framework,
Reading Science is a unique collection which looks at the distinctive language of science and technology and the role it plays in building up scientific understandings of the world. It is also the first book to include analysis of the role of images (graphs, charts, maps) in science writing and to consider the importance of reading science discourse as a multi-modal text. The authors approach the matter from the standpoints of new rhetoric, functional linguistics, discourse analysis and critical theory, contributing to a broad and definitive treatment of the topic. The book's internationally renowned contributors include M.A.K. Halliday, Charles Bazerman and Jay Lemke.
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