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4. RHETORIC AND THE WORLD OF SCIENCE IN THE EModE PERIOD focuses on medical writing and its subgenres to serve as a background to Section 6.3, which analyzes the differences in the use of nominalizations in the various subgenres of scientific writing. Finally, section 4.6 offers a summary of the contents of the chapter. 4.1. The rhetoric of science It has sometimes been stated that scientific texts cannot be regarded as rhetorical objects because they depict reality from an objective point of view. However, as Gross (1990: 5) puts it, scientific texts are rhetorical objects since they show an aesthetic dimension, inasmuch as they are used as a means of persuasion to other scientists. It must be noted that the body of texts classified under the label “scientific writing” is related to quite different areas of knowledge such as, for instance, medicine, geology and mathematics, so it cannot be considered as a homogeneous or stationary genre (Halliday and Martin 1993: 54). However, there are some general features that distinguish scientific writing from other genres. In Bazerman’s words (1988: 6), [scientific language] has the reputation of simply reporting natural fact that transcends symbolic trappings. Scientific writing is often treated apart from other forms of writing, as a special code privileged through its reliance in mathematics. In natural language, which is primarily used to communicate the ideas and emotions of the speakers, the subject position is occupied mainly by human beings, that is, the speakers themselves or their fellow creatures. However, science focuses on physical objects. The importance given to them is shown by the fact that, in scientific English, they occupy the subject position. As Gross notes (1990: 70), “science invests such objects with 88
4. RHETORIC AND THE WORLD OF SCIENCE IN THE EModE PERIOD the importance ordinarily bestowed on human beings: we are the clausal center of our world; physical objects are at the clausal center of the world of science.” In general terms, scientific texts are usually hard to read. If they are compared to other genres, the first striking difference is the amount of technical vocabulary they include. This may seem the reason why people not mastering this specific terminology have problems when facing scientific writing. It is obvious that some of the concepts are far removed from everyday words, and they pose a problem for understanding. However, as Halliday and Martin (1993: 71; see also Biber and Gray 2011) state, in the case of science, “[t]he difficulty lies more with the grammar than with the vocabulary. (…) The problems with technical terminology usually arise not from the technical terms themselves but from the complex relationships they have with one another.” Out of the seven difficulties which characterize scientific English, as discussed by Halliday and Martin (1993: 71 and ff.), only three will be examined here, since they are closely related to nominalizations, the object of analysis of this study. They are lexical density, syntactic ambiguity and grammatical metaphor; the other difficulties mentioned by Halliday and Martin are interlocking definitions, technical taxonomies, special expressions and semantic discontinuity. Lexical density refers to the number of content words in a text. In spoken English, the density of lexical items is usually low, whereas in planned, written English, as is the case of scientific English, this density increases (cf. Albentosa-Hernández and Moya- Guijarro 2001: 446; see also Ventola 1996: 153). As Biber and Gray (2011: 55-56) argue, 89
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6. FINDINGS 6. FINDINGS This chapte
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6. FINDINGS path-way to knowledge,
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APPENDIX APPENDIX: ACTION NOMINALIZ
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APPENDIX Tokens 8 Nominalization Ad
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APPENDIX heads with Cantharides, it
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APPENDIX Earliest attestation 1676
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APPENDIX signes of this disease: no
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APPENDIX Tokens brekynge/ for than
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APPENDIX Definition OED Bursting n.
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APPENDIX Nominalization Choosing Ba
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APPENDIX shutting; enclosing; drawi
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APPENDIX be rightly ordred & defend
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APPENDIX Conserving n., in same sen
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APPENDIX Earliest attestation c1374
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APPENDIX detractynge of tyme. Gale,
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APPENDIX examined. †1. A testing,
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APPENDIX Base < Latin explānātiō
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RESUMEN EN ESPAÑOL RESUMEN EN ESPA
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RESUMEN EN ESPAÑOL verbos de los q
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RESUMEN EN ESPAÑOL El análisis de
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RESUMEN EN ESPAÑOL las formaciones
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RESUMEN EN ESPAÑOL Gotti, Maurizio
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