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This volume challenges and extends previous approaches from systemic functional linguistics to understand the language of science and knowledge building from a linguistic perspective.



This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The description reveals co-textual patterns of language features, their expressions through grammatical resources, as well as their functions in the disciplinary context. The book also applies the description to analyse student texts in undergraduate biology, revealing characteristics of language and knowledge development. Although the discussion in this book focuses on the discourse of biology, both the language description and the descriptive principle can be used to inform the examination of knowledge in academic discourse in general, making this key reading for students and researchers in systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, English for academic purposes, applied linguistics, and science education.

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

SECTION I

Motivation and Background

1

1 A Linguistic Perspective on Knowledge-Building 3

2 A Multistratal Perspective on Knowledge-Building 23

SECTION II

Describing Ideational Discourse Semantics

53

3 Entity 55

4 Dimensionality 80

5 Figure 91

6 Grammatical Metaphor 114

7 Sequence, Activity and Field 145

SECTION III

Knowledge-Building in Undergraduate Biology

163

8 A Static Perspective: Construing Taxonomy 165

9 A Dynamic Perspective: Construing Activities 194

Contents

viii Contents

SECTION IV

Conclusion

225

10 Describing Language, Describing Knowledge 227

Bibliography

241

Appendix A Data Texts and Their Subject Areas

253

Appendix B Sample Texts and Genre Analysis

255

Appendix C List of Symbols and Abbreviations

265

Appendix D Annotations

267

Index

268

Dr Jing Hao is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, following her previous postdoctoral position at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and her doctorate in linguistics at the University of Sydney. Her research explores knowledgebuilding through English and Mandarin Chinese and their interaction with other semiotic modes.
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