The essential focus of this chapter is the question of what does it mean to be literate in
science? This chapter will advance three broad answers. In 2007, Roberts argued for two …

Reading is fundamental to science and not an adjunct to its practice. In other words,
understanding the meaning of the various forms of written discourse employed in the …

This article intends to conduct a corpus-based study on the correlation between technicality
and two typical ideational metaphors in English texts, ie, nominalization which is typical …

Grammatical metaphor (GM) has been shown to perform a central function in academic
prose, enabling writers to reorganise grammatically intricate texts into lexically dense …

Given the importance of disciplinary specificity in terms of the potential differences in the
functionality of nominalizations in scientific textbooks and the dearth of studies of this type …

This article conducts a COHA-based study on the diachronic and synchronic distributions of
interpersonal metaphors of modality. The diachronic research finds that the metaphorization …

Research has established the critical role grammatical metaphor (GM) plays in academic
discourse and argues for its explicit instruction. However, despite a growing body of …

The present study explored nominalization use in a sample of research articles (RAs) of
various types in physics and applied linguistics. To this end, 134 RAs from the related …

Abstract writing presents problems to budding academics, especially in keeping to the
generic structure and the requisite word counts by the various publishers. The article …

Bilimsel söylemin oluşturulmasını sağlayan pek çok dilsel öğe bulunmaktadır. Bu öğelerden
biri olan adlaştırma, bir anlam yaratma aracı (Halliday, 1994; 1998) olarak bilimsel …