The Development of Scientific Writing: Linguistic Features and Historical Context

by David Banks

Book Overview

This book traces the development of the scientific journal article as a linguistic genre in terms of its linguistic features. It looks at Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe as the first technical text written in English. Texts by Boyle, Power and Hooke from the late seventeenth century are then considered. This leads to the detailed analysis of a corpus of texts taken from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society covering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845533178
• ISBN13: 9781845533175
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"