Contents

List of Tables and Figures viii

Series Editor’s Introduction xi

Introduction: The Discursive Technology of Science 1

Chapter 1 General Orientation 2
Chapter 2 The Model 25

Part 1: Professional Literacy: Construing Nature 56

Introduction 57
Chapter 3 On the Language of Physical Science 59
Chapter 4 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English 76
Chapter 5 The Construction of Knowledge and Value in the 95
Grammar of Scientific Discourse: Charles Darwin’s
The Origin of the Species
Chapter 6 Language and the Order of Nature 117
Chapter 7 The Analysis of Scientific Texts in English and Chinese 137

Part 2: School Literacy: Construing Knowledge 147

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Introduction 148
Chapter 8 The Discourse of Geography: Ordering and Explaining 151
the Experiential World
Chapter 9 Literacy in Science: Learning to Handle Text as 184
Technology
Chapter 10 Technicality and Abstraction: Language for the 223
Creation of Specialized Texts
Chapter 11 Life as a Noun: Arresting the Universe in Science and 242
Humanities

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References 294
Index 307
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