‘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 pr

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