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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Supplement Series - Volume 6, Issue 1, 1989
Volume 6, Issue 1, 1989
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Some grammatical problems in scientific English
Author(s): M.A.K. Hallidaypp.: 13–37 (25)More LessThis paper examines the manner in which scientific English constitutes learning problems for students being introduced to science. It develops a taxonomy of the difficulties and investigates means of overcoming the problems which texts in scientific English create.
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Qǐ, Chéng, Zhuan, Hé, Jié the discourse pattern of a chinese text of literary criticism
Author(s): Liu Mingchenpp.: 38–69 (32)More LessThis paper attempts to describe some of the basic organizational features in Chinese writing as shown in a particular expository text. With detailed analysis of linguistic properties in the text, such as lexical cohesion, conjunction, thematic structure and schematic structure, this paper discusses how the text is organized in terms of qǐ ‘beginning’, chéng ‘transition’, zhuÇŽn ‘turning’, hé ‘synthesis’ and jié ‘end’. The study suggests that the defining features culturally preferred in Chinese writing seem to be related to zhuÇŽn, i.e. the emphasis on the ups and downs, twists and turns, of the argumentative development, which reminds of but by far outshines Kaplan (1972).
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The discourse of history
Author(s): Antonia Rubinapp.: 70–108 (39)More LessThis paper analyzes two texts taken from an Australian and an Italian history textbook, using the systemic-functional model of language developed by Halliday, Martin and others. The analysis highlights fundamental differences in the way the discourse of history is realized in each text, both in terms of register and genre.
It is argued that such a diversity can be explained with different expectations in each country not only towards the role of history as a subject, but also towards the role of education in general.
It is suggested that, in the current debate about education reforms, the Australian educational system could look at other educational systems beyond the Anglo-American model.
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An investigation of the generic structure of the material/methods section of scientific reports
Author(s): Anne Murray Conduit, Diana V. Modesto, Winston Pugh and D. Imnaruddinpp.: 109–134 (26)More LessA study was undertaken to investigate the generic structure of Material/Methods sections in Theses and Journal articles, using Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar and Martin’s Genre theory. Literature to date has indicated that the Materials/Methods section is considered the easiest section to write up, with its simple structure of past passive organized around implicit conjunction depending on sequence of events. However, it seems from this study that, although this might be so in scientific reports written for the social sciences, for the physical sciences a much more complicated structure of the Materials/Methods section is required.
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