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‘Halliday's investigation sin to grammatical metaphor take us deeplyi nto the way we construct and expand meanings, starting with representations of concrete experience devents and ending with the oretical 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 rob Ustvirtual worlds of theory from observable material events. But these esthese same process esinall the meaning systems of modern life, whether law, bureaucracy, economicsorarts. He sees the same processes of grammatical metaphor as children learn to participate in our built symbolic environment, particularly as they are introduced to these meaning systems in schools, an institution designed expressly for that purpose.'

Professor M.A.K.Halliday, was Foundation Professor of Linguistic sat the University of Sydney until his retirement and has taught as Visiting Professor around the world Asaseif-styled generalis the has published in many branches of linguistics.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction：HowBigIsaLanguage?

OnthePowerofLanguage

PARTONEGRAMMATICALMETAPHOREditor’SIntroduction

1LanguageandtheReshapingofHumanExperience

2LanguageandKnowledge：the‘Unpacking’ofText 3ThingsandRelations：RegrammaticizingExperienceasTechnicalKnowledge

4TheGrammaticalConstructionofScientificKnowledge：theFramingoftheEnglishClause

PARTTW0SCIENTIFICENGLISHEditor’SIntroduction

5OntheLanguageofPhysicalScience

6SomeGrammafic~ProblemsinScientificEnglish

7OntheGrammarofScientificEnglish

8WritingScience：LiteracyandDiscursivePowerBibliography

Index