文档介绍：The Language of Science
The Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday
Volume 1: On Grammar
Volume 2: Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse
Volume 3: On Language and Linguistics
Volume 4: The Language of Early Childhood
Volume 5: The Language of Science
Volume 6: Computational and Quantitative Studies
Volume 7: Studies in English Language
Volume 8: Studies in Chinese Language
Volume 9: Language and Education
Volume 10: Language and Society
Volume 5 in the Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday
The Language of
Science
M. A. K. Halliday
Edited by Jonathan J. Webster
continuum
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First published 2004
This collection © M. A. K. Halliday 2004
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: How Big is a Language?
On the Power of Language xi
PART ONE GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR 1
Editor's Introduction 3
1 Language and the Reshaping of Human
Experience 7
2 Language and Knowledge: the
'Unpacking' of Text 24
3 Things and Relations:
Regrammaticizing Experience as 49
Technical Knowledge
4 The Grammatical Construction of
Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of
the English Clause 102
PART Two SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH 135
Editor's Introduction 137
5 On the Langua