This chapter discusses some key issues in studying the pragmatics of scientific writing in a
historical perspective, providing a general overview of earlier research and illustrating a …

Modern science derives at least part of its privileged epistemological status from the way it
uses language. This study presents a diachronic perspective on scientific research writing in …

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and
method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric …

My aim in this article is to discuss the development of scientific language and changing
thought-styles in the light of theoretical and methodological issues of historical discourse …

The rhetorical character of scientific writing currently interests many groups of scholars.
These differently motivated groups, working from different conceptual models and using …

A quote from Lawrence Prelli's work on the rhetoric of science will help us introduce the
perspective of this issue, whose aim is 'to inquire into how the arguments that comprise …

Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Language and Linguistics Book
Award 2010 This book is one of the first applications of a functional approach to language …

Between the 15th century and today there have been significant changes in the organisation
of scientific discourse, previously identified as developments towards more literate styles …

Commentary: When this essay first appeared more than 10 years ago, it built on a small but
substantial body of scholarship that declared scientific writing an appropriate field for …

With contributions by sixteen scholars from such diverse fields as communication, linguistics,
literary studies, rhetoric, and sociology of sciences, Essays in the Study of Scientific …