The Language of Civil Engineering: Descriptive, Prescriptive and Persuasive  

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Machauf, Liora

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 2-3 (1990), page 243-254.
Fulltext: 12_02-03_Machauf.pdf (606.33KB)

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Journal articles of civil engineering include three main discourse functions: description, prescription and persuasion. Description is subdivided into physical, function and process description. Prescription mcludes: indirect instructions, the use of first and second personal pronouns, direct instructions and “instructions which are not instructions.” In addition to description and prescription, which are typical of technical English, there is a third discourse function - persuasion. This is the “non-technical” language which includes metaphors and idioms. The discourse functions are analyzed lexically and syntactically. The main conclusion is that “non-technical language,” e.g. colloquial or metaphorical, has an important function in the civil engineering articles. This finding should be of importance to teachers of English as a second language, especially those who teach English for science and technology. “Scientific English is a recognizable category. and any speaker of English for whom it falls within the domain of experience knows it when he sees it or hears it.” (Halliday 1988)

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