本书为《韩礼德文集》的第五卷。韩礼德从各种不同的角度对科技英语进行了全面的探讨，论述了人类将常识转化为科学知识的过程，观察了人类从一致式的意义表达转变为隐喻表达的过程。

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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. But he sees these same processes in all the meaning systems of modern life, whether law, bureaucracy, economics or arts. He sees the same processes of grammatical metaphor as children learn to participate in our built symbolic environment, particularly as they are introduced to these meaning systems in schools, an institution designed expressly for that purpose.'

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction：How Big Is a Language?

On the Power of Language

PART ONE GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR Editor’S Introduction

 1 Language and the Reshaping of Human Experience

 2 Language and Knowledge：the‘Unpacking’of Text

 3 Things and Relations： Regrammaticizing Experience as Technical Knowledge

 4 The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge：the Framing ofthe English Clause

PART TW0 SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH Editor’S Introduction

 5 On the Language of Physical Science

 6 Some Grammafic~Problems in Scientific English

 7 On the Grammar ofScientific English

 8 Writing Science：Literacy and Discursive Power Bibliography

Index