from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
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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.
www.medtrad.org/panacea.html
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) /
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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
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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
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_____. Scientific
Discourse and the Rhetoric of Globalization: The Impact of Culture and
Language. London & New York: Continuum, 2012.
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Plo Alastrué, Ramón. "Several Pre-Texts in
Scientific Writing." In The Intertextual Dimension of Discourse:
Pragmalinguistic-Cognitive-Hermeneutic Approaches. Ed. Beatriz Penas. Zaragoza:
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_____. "Vagueness and Imprecise Numbers in the
Hard Disciplines of the MICASE." In English
as a Glocalization Phenomenon. Ed. Mª Carmen Pérez-Llantada and Gibson
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Plo
Alastrué, Ramón, and Carmen Pérez-LLantada Auría "Textual and Contextual
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Seoane, Elena. "On the Conventionalization of
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Shinn, Terry, and Richard Whitley, eds. Expository Science: Forms and Functions of
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Sohmer, Richard, and Sarah Michaels. "3. The 'Two
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Soler Monreal, Carmen, Luz Gil Salom and María
Carbonell Olivares. "Unconventional section headings in computing and
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Stephens,
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Thoiron, P., and H. Béjoint. "La Place des reformulations dans les textes
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Van Emden, Joan. Writing
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Pérez, María Jesús, and María Elena García Sánchez. "Writing Courses
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Woolgar,
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