The Language of Science: Volume 5

by M.A.K. Halliday

Book Overview

Halliday's investigations into grammatical metaphor take us deeply into the way we construct and expand meanings, starting with representations of concrete experienced events and ending with theoretical worlds populated by abstract entities linked through generalized relations and causalities. He finds these processes most strikingly in the development of the modern sciences that have historically created robust virtual worlds of theory from observable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826488277
• ISBN13: 9780826488275
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"