This book examines strategic language use in professional engineering written reports, illustrating how writers create a persuasive stance within an objective style. It describes engineering writing through a close analysis of interpersonal language, using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), complemented with quantitative corpus linguistics methods and interpreted through concepts drawn from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). This description demonstrates how engineering writers have a strong preference for a certain type of evaluative language, with a dominant stance focused on the worthiness of things and processes. It is also demonstrates that engineering writers make strategic choices in their use of interpersonal language towards a certain aim, particularly in documents written to gain approval of a project by a regulatory body.
This research is focused on engineering writing in the Australian context, but given the globalised nature of the engineering profession, also has relevance internationally. The creation of an objective stance in writing is also relevant to other disciplines.
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Evaluative Language in Engineering Writing
The Grammar of Persuasion
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Transcription Conventions
- 1 Writing in Engineering Practice
- 2 Investigating the Language of Engineering
- 3 Constraint
- 4 Context
- 5 Stance
- 6 Strategy
- 7 Teaching Engineers to Write
- Notes
- References for Corpus Texts
- References
- Index
- Copyright Page
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