Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.

Autores
Vallejos, Patricia
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
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versión publicada
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.Aims: To study in popular science books for children the stylistic selections that facilitate the passage from common sense to scientific knowledge. To provide a pragmatic explanation of the syntactic restrictions that characterises the scientific language of the texts. Methodology: The work articulates the Hallydayan approach of Sydney School studies of science textbooks and the pragmatic perspective of Leech’s “Principles of Textual Rhetoric”. Materials: Popular science books that cover physics and biology subjects’. Results: The description and analysis of the stylistic options at the grammatical level supply a list of the syntactic restrictions constraint by the pragmatic features of this specific communicative context. Conclusion: The analysis draws attention to the needs of the teachers that intervene in the learning process of scientific knowledge in order to develop the skills required for the purposes of school literacy of science. These include the mastering not only of field-specific terms but also of the grammar resources that structure scientific knowledge. On account of this, the work stresses the importance of the implementation, in science teachers’ syllabus, of courses or tutorial sessions of scientific language in order to instruct future science educators in its linguistic skills and, in so doing, complement their professional literacy
Fil: Vallejos, Patricia. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Humanidades; Argentina.
Fuente
British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science
Materia
Ciencia popular
Niñez
Lenguaje científico
Opciones de estilo
Niveles gramaticales
Principios de retórica textual
Gramática
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
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Universidad Nacional del Sur
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
title Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
spellingShingle Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
Vallejos, Patricia
Ciencia popular
Niñez
Lenguaje científico
Opciones de estilo
Niveles gramaticales
Principios de retórica textual
Gramática
title_short Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
title_full Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
title_fullStr Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
title_full_unstemmed Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
title_sort Grammar and Pragmatic Interrelations in the Construction of Popular Science Texts for Children.
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vallejos, Patricia
author Vallejos, Patricia
author_facet Vallejos, Patricia
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencia popular
Niñez
Lenguaje científico
Opciones de estilo
Niveles gramaticales
Principios de retórica textual
Gramática
topic Ciencia popular
Niñez
Lenguaje científico
Opciones de estilo
Niveles gramaticales
Principios de retórica textual
Gramática
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv .Aims: To study in popular science books for children the stylistic selections that facilitate the passage from common sense to scientific knowledge. To provide a pragmatic explanation of the syntactic restrictions that characterises the scientific language of the texts. Methodology: The work articulates the Hallydayan approach of Sydney School studies of science textbooks and the pragmatic perspective of Leech’s “Principles of Textual Rhetoric”. Materials: Popular science books that cover physics and biology subjects’. Results: The description and analysis of the stylistic options at the grammatical level supply a list of the syntactic restrictions constraint by the pragmatic features of this specific communicative context. Conclusion: The analysis draws attention to the needs of the teachers that intervene in the learning process of scientific knowledge in order to develop the skills required for the purposes of school literacy of science. These include the mastering not only of field-specific terms but also of the grammar resources that structure scientific knowledge. On account of this, the work stresses the importance of the implementation, in science teachers’ syllabus, of courses or tutorial sessions of scientific language in order to instruct future science educators in its linguistic skills and, in so doing, complement their professional literacy
Fil: Vallejos, Patricia. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Humanidades; Argentina.
description .Aims: To study in popular science books for children the stylistic selections that facilitate the passage from common sense to scientific knowledge. To provide a pragmatic explanation of the syntactic restrictions that characterises the scientific language of the texts. Methodology: The work articulates the Hallydayan approach of Sydney School studies of science textbooks and the pragmatic perspective of Leech’s “Principles of Textual Rhetoric”. Materials: Popular science books that cover physics and biology subjects’. Results: The description and analysis of the stylistic options at the grammatical level supply a list of the syntactic restrictions constraint by the pragmatic features of this specific communicative context. Conclusion: The analysis draws attention to the needs of the teachers that intervene in the learning process of scientific knowledge in order to develop the skills required for the purposes of school literacy of science. These include the mastering not only of field-specific terms but also of the grammar resources that structure scientific knowledge. On account of this, the work stresses the importance of the implementation, in science teachers’ syllabus, of courses or tutorial sessions of scientific language in order to instruct future science educators in its linguistic skills and, in so doing, complement their professional literacy
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