Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals : a survey of style and grammatical metaphor /
Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2003.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1423761375 9781423761372 9027296820 9789027296825 |
| ISSN: | 1568-1963 ; |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Symbols; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Research disciplines and methods; Chapter 2. Field, Tenor and Mode dimensions; Chapter 3. Register analysis; Chapter 4. Categorizing text through genre analysis; Chapter 5. Research methods and survey; Chapter 6. Information structure; Chapter 7. The technical manual as social semiotic; Chapter 8. Discussion and conclusions; References; Appendix: Survey of writing style in technical manuals; Name index; Subject index.