Evaluative Language in Engineering Writing
The Grammar of Persuasion
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2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-47513-7 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-47513-7 (ISBN)
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Examines strategic language use in professional engineering written reports, illustrating how writers create a persuasive stance within an objective style.
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.
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.
Claire Simpson-Smith currently works as a learning designer in Data61, a unit of the CSIRO. She completed her PhD at the University of South Australia and formerly taught engineering communication at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Part I. The Role of Writing
1. Writing in Engineering Practice
2. The Language of Engineering
Part II. Attitude in Engineering Writing
3. Constraint
4. Context
Part III. Engagement in Engineering Writing
5. Stance
6. Strategy
Part IV. Towards Contextualisation
7. Teaching Engineers to Write
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-47513-0 / 1350475130 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-47513-7 / 9781350475137 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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