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The Development of Scientific Writing: Linguistic Features and Historical Context - Functional Linguistics David Banks
The Development of Scientific Writing: Linguistic Features and Historical Context - Functional Linguistics
David Banks
Traces the development of the scientific journal article as a linguistic genre in terms of its linguistic features. This book looks at Chaucer's "Treatise on the Astrolabe", as the first technical text written in English. It considers texts by Boyle, Power and Hooke from the late seventeenth century.
224 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9781845533168 |
| Publishers | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 18 mm · 503 g |
| Language | English |
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