A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Scientific Texts
Top Ten
Miscellaneous
Ages
Top Ten
Bazerman, C. Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1988.
Bloomfield, Leonard. "Linguistic Aspects of Science." International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1939. Vol. 1, pt. 4.
Falguera López, José Luis. "El papel semántico de los métodos de determinación para una teoría científica." In Semántica y lenguajes especializados. Ed. C. Inchaurralde et al. Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1992. 103-12.
Gilbert, G. Nigel, and Michael Mulkay. Opening Pandora's Box: A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.
Graddol, David. "The Development of Scientific English." Selection. In English: History, Diversity and Change. Ed. David Graddol, Dick Leith and Joan Swann. London: Routledge / Open UP, 1996.*
Hyland, Ken. Hedging in Scientific Research Articles. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 54). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998.
Killingworth, M. Jimmie, ed. Interpretations of Scientific Discourse: Rhetorical, Historical, Linguistic, and Pedagogical Perspectives.. Ablex series ATTW Studies in Technical Communication. Ablex Press: Greenwich (CT) (forthcoming 1997).
Martin, J. R., and Robert Veel. Reading Science: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Discourses of Science. London: Routledge, 1998.
Myers, Greg. Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Science. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1986.
Nash, Christopher, ed. Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature. London: Routledge, 1990.*
Miscellaneous
Aguillo, Isidro F. "El español y la difusión de la ciencia a través de la Web." In El porvenir del español en la sociedad del conocimiento. Ed. Jaime Otero and Hermógenes Perdiguero. Fundación Caja de Burgos, 2006.
Alonso Almeida, Francisco. (U de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Facultad de Informática; falonso@dfm.ulpgc.es). "All Gathered Together: On the Construction of Scientific and Technical Books in 15th-century England." In Editing Middle English in the 21st Century: Old Texts, New Approaches. Ed. Nila Vázquez and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre. Monograph issue of IJES 5.2 (2005): 1-25.* (Manuscripts, scientific texts, compilations).
Alvarez de Mon y Riego, Inmaculada. "La interacción emisor-destinatario en el texto técnico escrito." Actas del XV Congreso de AEDEAN. Logroño: Colegio Universitario de La Rioja, 1993. 713-19.*
_____. "Encapsulation and Prospection in Written Scientific English." Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 9 (2001).
Balluerka Lasa, Nekane. Cómo mejorar el estudio y aprendizaje de textos de carácter científico. (Educación y Psicología). Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco.
Bazerman, C. Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1988.
Bloomfield, Leonard. "Linguistic Aspects of Science." International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1939. Vol. 1, pt. 4.
Booth, V. Communicating in Science: Writing a Scientific Paper and Speaking at Scientific Meetings. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. 2000.
Branscombe, Margaret. "'I Want to Be Sun': Tableau as an Embodied Representation of Main Ideas in Science Information Texts." Ph.D. diss. U of South Florida, 2015. Online at University of South Florida Scholar Commons.*
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6649&context=etd&httpsredir=1&referer=
2022
Candel, D. "Une Approche de la langue des physiciens." Langue Française 64 (1984): 93-107.
Cantor, Geoffrey. "The Rhetoric of Experiment." In The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Ed. David Gooding, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 159-80.*
Carbonell Olivares, María. "Spanish PhD Theses in Computing: A Study of the Schematic Structure of the Introduction Chapters." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 93-102.*
Crismore, Avon, and Rodney Farnsworth. "Metadiscourse in Popular and Professional Science Discourse." In The Writing Scholar. Ed. Walter Nash .Newbury Park (CA): Sage, 1990. 118-36.
Dawang, Huang. "A Tale of Two English-language Publication Contexts for Chinese Scientists—Recontextualization in the Coalesced Results and Discussion Section." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 19-27.*
Day, R. A. Scientific English. Arizona: Oryx Press, 1995.
Eger, Martin. "Hermeneutics and the New Epic of Science." In The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Scientific Writing. Ed. Murdo William McRae. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1993. 186-209.
Fahnestock, J. "Accomodating Science: The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts." Written Communication 3.3 (1986): 275-96.
Falguera López, José Luis. "El papel semántico de los métodos de determinación para una teoría científica." In Semántica y lenguajes especializados. Ed. C. Inchaurralde et al. Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1992. 103-12.
Forés López, Mª Dolores. "Elementos de la macro estructura en artículos científicos alemanes y sus equivalentes en español en las disciplinas de ciencias e ingenierías de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 209-14.*
Gilbert, G. Nigel, and Michael Mulkay. Opening Pandora's Box: A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.
González Pueyo, Mª Isabel. "Scientific and Technical Discourse and the Internet." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 595-600.*
González Pueyo, Mª Isabel, and Alicia Redrado Lacarta. "A Pragmacognitive Approach to the Study of some Internet Scientific Articles: Headline Titles." Miscelánea 27 (2003 [issued Nov. 2004]): 69-86.*
Gooding, David, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer, eds. The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 1993.*
Gotti, M. Robert Boyle and the Language of Science. Milano: Guerini Scientifica, 1996.
Graddol, David. "The Development of Scientific English." Selection. In English: History, Diversity and Change. Ed. David Graddol, Dick Leith and Joan Swann. London: Routledge / Open UP, 1996.*
Greimas, A. J. Semiotica do discurso cientifico. Da modalidaire. Sao Paulo: Difel, 1976.
Hansen, Wallace R. Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey. 7th ed. US Government Printing Office, 1991.
Harré, Rom. "Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse." In Narrative in Culture. Ed. Christopher Nash. London: Routledge, 1990. 81-101.*
Jonassen, David H., Daniel R. Ambruso, and Julie Olesen. "Designing a Hypertext on Transfusion Medicine Using Cognitive Flexibility Theory." Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 1 (1992): 309-22.*
Killingworth, M. Jimmie, ed. Interpretations of Scientific Discourse: Rhetorical, Historical, Linguistic, and Pedagogical Perspectives.. Ablex series ATTW Studies in Technical Communication. Ablex Press: Greenwich (CT) (forthcoming 1997).
Krasner, James. "A Chaos of Delight: Perception and Illusion in Darwin's Scientific Writing." Representations 31 (1990): 118-41.
Lafuente Millán, Enrique. "A Contribution to the Interdisciplinary Contrastive Study of Writers' Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Research Articles in English." Ph.D. U de Zaragoza, 2008.
Low, Graham. "Explaining Evolution: The Use of Animacy in an Example of Semi-Formal Science Writing." Language and Literature 14.2 (2005): 129-48.*
Luzón Marco, Mª José. "The Rhetorical Function of the Lexical Signalling of the Author's Presence in the Experimental Biomedical Paper." Ph.D. diss. U of Castellón, 1996.
_____. "The Construction of Novelty in Computer Science Papers." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 13 (2000): 123-40.*
Marqués Aguado, Teresa. "A Lexical Analysis of Modal Expressions of Certainty in Scientific Discourse." In Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference. Ed. M. J. Lorenzo Modia et al. CD-ROM: A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2008. 373-86.*
Martin, J. R., and Robert Veel. Reading Science: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Discourses of Science. London: Routledge, 1998.
Martín Martín, Pedro. "The Mitigation of Scientific Claims in Research Papers: A Comparative Study." In Academic Writing: The Role of Different Rhetorical Traditions. Ed. Rafael Monroy-Casas. Monograph issue of IJES 8.2 (2008): 133-52.* (Academic writing, scientific claims, hedging, research articles).
McRae, Murdo William, ed. The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Scientific Writing. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1993..
Medawar, Peter. "Is the Scientific Paper Fraudulent?" Saturday Review 1 August 1964: 42-43.
Mendiluce Cabrera, Gustavo, and Ana I. Hernández Bartolomé. "El zigzag retórico en el artículo biomédico: ahora, en español." PDF.
2005-05-08
_____. "La arquitectura retórica: tres pilares didácticos del artículo biomédico." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 52-57.*
Moskowich, Isabel, and Javier Parapar. "Writing Science, Compiling Science: The Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing." In Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference. Ed. M. J. Lorenzo Modia et al. CD-ROM: A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2008. 531-44.*
Moskovich, Isabel, and Begoña Crespo, eds. Astronomy 'playne and simple': The Writing of Science between 1700 and 1900. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012.
Muñoz-Calvo, Micaela, Carmen Buesa-Gómez and M. Ángeles Ruiz-Moneva, eds. New Trends in Translation and Cultural Identity. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.* (I. Cultural Identity, Ideology and Translation; II. Popular Culture, Literature and Translation; III. Translating the Media: Translating the Culture; IV. Scientific Discourse as Cultural Translation).
http://www.c-s-p.org//Flyers/New-Trends-in-Translation-and-Cultural-Identity1-84718-653-X.htm
2009
Muñoz-Miquel, Ana. "La traducción médica como especialidad académica: Algunos rasgos definitorios." Hermeneus 18 (2016): 235-67.*
Myers, Greg. Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Science. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1986.
_____. "Making a Discovery: Narratives of Split Genes." In Narrative in Culture. Ed. Christopher Nash. London: Routledge, 1990. 102-29.* (Summary in Three Papers on the Popularisation of Science. Lancaster: U of Lancaster Centre for Science Studies and Science Policy, 1987. 39-42).
_____. "The Pragmatics of Politeness in Scientific Articles." Applied Linguistics 10.1 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989): 1-35.
Nash, Christopher, ed. Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature. London: Routledge, 1990.*
Parsons, G. Cohesion and Coherence: Scientific Texts (A Comparative Study). (Monographs in Systemic Linguistics, 1). Nottingham: Department of English Studies, U of Nottingham, 1990.
Pearson, Karl. The Grammar of Science. 1892. (Everyman's Library, 939). London: Dent; New York: Dutton.
Peirce, C. S. "Ideas, Stray or Stolen, about Scientific Writing." 1904. In The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Volume 2 (1893-1913). Ed. Nathan Houser et al. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. 325-30.*
Pérez-Llantada Auría, Carmen. "Designing New Genre Identities in Scientific and Technical Discourse: Cognitive, Social and Pedagogical Implications." Journal of English Studies 3 (2001/2, issued 2003): 251-64.*
_____. "Social Pragmatics in Scientific and Technical Writing." Ibérica 5 (2003): 19-34.
_____. "Discourse and the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge: A Look at Academic vs. Professional Communities of Practice." Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense (forthcoming 2006).
_____. Scientific Discourse and the Rhetoric of Globalization: The Impact of Culture and Language. London & New York: Continuum, 2012.
http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=165922&SearchType=Basic
Plo Alastrué, Ramón. "Several Pre-Texts in Scientific Writing." In The Intertextual Dimension of Discourse: Pragmalinguistic-Cognitive-Hermeneutic Approaches. Ed. Beatriz Penas. Zaragoza: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1996. 191-206.*
_____. "Vagueness and Imprecise Numbers in the Hard Disciplines of the MICASE." In English as a Glocalization Phenomenon. Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada and Gibson Ferguson. Valencia: Prensas Universitarias de Valencia, 2006. 185-207.
Plo Alastrué, Ramón, and Carmen Pérez-LLantada Auría "Textual and Contextual Models of Science Writing." In Interpretations of Scientific Discourse: Rhetorical, Historical, Linguistic, and Pedagogical Perspectives.. Ed. M. Jimmie Killingworth. Ablex series ATTW Studies in Technical Communication.- Ablex Press: Greenwich (CT) (forthcoming 1997).
"The Selfish Gene Tops Royal Society Poll to Reveal The Nation's Most Inspiring Science Books." Royal Society 19 July 2017.*
https://royalsociety.org/news/2017/07/science-book-prize-poll-results/
2017
Seoane, Elena. "On the Conventionalization of Pragmatic Strategies in Late Modern English Scientific Discourse." In Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference. Ed. M. J. Lorenzo Modia et al. CD-ROM: A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2008. 291-302.*
Shinn, Terry, and Richard Whitley, eds. Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985.
Sohmer, Richard, and Sarah Michaels. "3. The 'Two Puppies' Story: The Role of Narrative in Teaching and Learning Science." In Narrative Interaction. Ed. Uta M. Quasthoff and Tabea Becker. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005. 57-91.*
Soler Monreal, Carmen, Luz Gil Salom and María Carbonell Olivares. "Unconventional section headings in computing and robotics research articles." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 77-85.*
Stephens, James. Francis Bacon and the Style of Science. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1975.
Strobl, Wolfgang. "Lenguaje y ciencia." In Lenguaje y Filosofía: Ponencias y comunicaciones (Novena Semana Española de Filosofía). Madrid: CSIC – Instituto Luis Vives, de Filosofía, 1969. 445-52.*
Tamariz, Mónica, J. Erin Brown and Keelin M. Murray. "The Role of Practice and Literacy in the Evolution of Scientific Structure." In The Evolution of Language. Ed. Andrew D. M. Smith et al. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2010. 313-20.*
Thoiron, P., and H. Béjoint. "La Place des reformulations dans les textes scientifiques." Meta 36.1 (1991): 101-10.
Van Emden, Joan. Writing and Speaking for Scientific and Technical Students. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
Vicente Pérez, María Jesús, and María Elena García Sánchez. "Writing Courses for Students of Science and Technology." In First International Conference on English Studies: Past, Present and Future: Costa de Almería, 19-25 de Octubre, 1997. Ed. Annette Gomis et al. CD-ROM. Almería: U de Almería, n.d. [2001]*
Williams, Ian A. "Move, Voice and Stance in Biomedical Research Article Discussions: A Pedagogical Perspective." In Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) / Proceedings of the 5th International AELFE Conference). Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Ramón Plo Alastrué and Claus Peter Neumann. CD-ROM. Zaragoza: AELFE / Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005. 43-51.*
Woolgar, Steve, ed. "Discovery: Logic and Sequence in a Scientific Text." In The Social Process of Scientific Investigation. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 4. Ed. Karin Knorr, Roger Krohn, and Richard Whitley. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1980. 239-68.
Zimmer, Carl. "When Scientists Go All Bloggy." In Zimmer, The Loom 17 April 2004.
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/04/17/when_scientists_go_all_bloggy.php
2007-04-22
Anthologies
Dawkins, Richard, ed. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.
Pinker, Steven, ed. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004.i
Bibliography
García Landa, José Angel. "Scientific Texts." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology. Online at Vdocuments 27 May 2018.*
2019
_____. "Scientific Texts." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. Online at Mexico Documents 27 May 2017.*
2021
_____. "Scientific Texts." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 29 Nov. 2021.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/11/scientific-texts.html
2023
_____. "Scientific Texts." From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. Online at PDFslide.*
2023
Dictionaries
Godman, A., and E. M. F. Payne. Longman Dictionary of Scientific Usage. Harlow and London: Longman, 1979.*
Internet resources
UZ-BEST (University of Zaragoza Bank of English for Science and Technology). Coord. Carmen Pérez-Llantada. http://ice.unizar.es/uzbest/
Journals
Panace@
Electronic journal on the language and translation of medical texts.
Ed. Fernando A. Navarro.
2005-05-08
Social Studies of Science 16.4 (1986).
Series
Ablex series ATTW Studies in Technical Communication. Ablex Press: Greenwich (CT)
Scientific Texts: Ages
Classical
Paniagua, Aguilar, David. El panorama literario técnico-científico en Roma (siglos I-II D.C.): "Et docere et delectare". (Acta Salmanticensia; Estudios Filológicos, 312). Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2006.
Medieval
Eamon, William. Science and Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton, 1994.
16th century/Renaissance
Findlen, P. "Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Knowledge: The Playfulness of Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Europe." Renaissance Quarterly 43 (1990): 292-331.
17th century
Cavendish, Margaret. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666.
Jones, Richard Foster. "Science and English Prose Style in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 45 (1930): 977-1009.
Markley, Robert. Fallen Languages: Crisis of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660 -1740. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993. (Boyle, Wilkins, Peter Shaw and Newton; prose style, historicising scientific discourse)
20th century
Butler, Christopher S. "Qualifications in Science: Modal Meanings in Scientific Texts." In The Writing Scholar. Ed. Walter Nash. Newbury Park (CA): Sage, 1990.137-70.
Ceccarelli, Leah. Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.
Crismore, Avon, and Rodney Farnsworth. "Metadiscourse in Popular and Professional Science Discourse." In The Writing Scholar. Ed. Walter Nash .Newbury Park (CA): Sage, 1990. 118-36.
Channell, Joanna. "Precise and Vague Quantities in Writing on Economics." In The Writing Scholar. Ed. Walter Nash .Newbury Park (CA): Sage, 1990. 95-117.
Luhmann, Niklas. Writing Science: Observations on Modernity. Trans. William Whobrey. Stanford UP, 1999.
Mulkay, Michael. The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis. Winchester (MA): Allen and Unwin, 1985.