Evaluative Language in Engineering Writing | The Grammar of Persuasion
Claire Simpson-Smith
ISBN 10: 1350475130 ISBN 13: 9781350475137
Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2026
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Evaluative Language in Engineering Writing | The Grammar of Persuasion | Claire Simpson-Smith | Buch | Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics | Englisch | 2026 | Bloomsbury Academic | EAN 9781350475137 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Seller Inventory # 135411558
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This book examines strategic language use in professional engineering written reports, illustrating how writers create a persuasive stance within an objective style. It describes engineering writing through a close analysis of interpersonal language, using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), complemented with quantitative corpus linguistics methods and interpreted through concepts drawn from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). This description demonstrates how engineering writers have a strong preference for a certain type of evaluative language, with a dominant stance focused on the worthiness of things and processes. It is also demonstrates that engineering writers make strategic choices in their use of interpersonal language towards a certain aim, particularly in documents written to gain approval of a project by a regulatory body.
This research is focused on engineering writing in the Australian context, but given the globalised nature of the engineering profession, also has relevance internationally. The creation of an objective stance in writing is also relevant to other disciplines.
About the Authors:
J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. The Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics was opened by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014.
David Caldwell is a Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of South Australia.
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Title: Evaluative Language in Engineering Writing |...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 2026
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