LINGUIST List 14.430

Wed Feb 12 2003

Books: Literary Stylistics: Gross, Harmon, Reidy

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. bartonm, Communicating Science: Gross, Harmon, Reidy

			
Title: Communicating Science
Subtitle: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present
Series Title: 
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
 http://www.oup-usa.org/		 
			
Author: Alan G. Gross, 
Author: Joseph E. Harmon, 
Author: Michael Reidy, 

Hardback: ISBN: 0195134540, Pages: 280 pp, Price: $60.00
			
Abstract:

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its
modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become
today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English,
and German focuses on the changes in the style, organization, and
argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. They
also speculate on the future currency of the scientific article, as it
enters the era of the World Wide Web. This book is an outstanding
resource text in the rhetoric of science, and will stand as the
definitive study on the topic.

Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics
		Literary Stylistics (Sociolinguistics)
		Sociolinguistics
		Writing Systems
			 
Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG)
			French (Language code: FRN)
			German, Standard (Language code: GER)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)