Analysing Scientific Discourse from A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective: A Framework for Exploring Knowledge Building in Biology

by Jing Hao

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032238712
• ISBN13: 9781032238715
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"