critical and functional perspectives on discourses of science /
edited by J.R. Martin and Robert Veel.
New York :
Routledge,
1998.
ix, 368 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Discourses of science / J.R. Martin -- Emerging perspectives on the many dimensions of scientific discourse / Charles Bazerman -- Cultivating science / Gillian Fuller -- The 'science' of science fiction / Anne Granny-Francis -- Multiplying meaning / Jay Lemke -- The greening of school science / Robert Veel -- Science and apprenticeship / Frances Christie -- Things and relations / M.A.K. Halliday -- Science discourse and industrial hierarchy / David Rose -- Extended reality, proto-nouns and the vernacular / P.R.R. White -- Technicality and abstraction in social science / Peter Wignell -- Construing processes of consciousness / C.M.I.M. Matthiessen.
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Bringing together discourse analysis and critical theory for the first time in a single volume, this work looks at the distinctive language of science and technology and the role it plays in building scientific understandings of the world.