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Language of Science

Paperback • 2006 • English • 1. edition

Language of Science

By M.A.K. Halliday

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'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 material events. He sees the same processe...Show more

Philosophy of language
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ISBN

9780826488275

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published year

2006

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Language of Science

Format

Paperback

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