1st Edition
The Discourse of Physics Building Knowledge through Language, Mathematics and Image
By Y. J. Doran
Copyright 2018
244 Pages
57 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
57 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
57 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book provides a detailed model of both the discourse and knowledge of physics and offers insights toward developing pedagogy that improves how physics is taught and learned. Building on a rich history of applying a Systemic Functional Linguistics approach to scientific discourse, the book uses an SFL framework, here extended to encompass the more recently developed Systemic Functional... Read more
- Physics, Knowledge and Semiosis
- Language, Knowledge and Description
- Mathematical Statements and Expressions
- Mathematical Symbols and the Architecture of the Grammar of Mathematics
- Genres of Language and Mathematics
- Images and the Knowledge of Physics
- Physics and Semiotics
Appendix A System Network Conventions
Appendix B Full System Networks for Mathematics
Appendix C Details of Corpus
Biography
Y. J. Doran is a researcher in the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, who focuses on Systemic Functional Linguistic theory and description, Legitimation Code Theory and their contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics, multimodality and identity.
"This book is benefical to graduate students and researches who are engaged in the field of discourse studies and helpful to language teachers who are teaching English for Specific Purposes, as the teaching of disciplinary English requires a good understanding of disciplnary difference." -- Xinzhang Yang, Xiamen University, China
