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Book: From Language to Multimodality

Chapter: 8 Instantial and conventional representations in scientific knowledge construction

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21984

Blurb:

This chapter is a detailed case study of how a physicist changes his grammatical subject representations in two research articles published within a decade of each other in international refereed journals. Grammatical subject is crucial when composing texts as it represents the nub of the argument: ‘something by reference to which the proposition can be affirmed or denied’ (Halliday 1994: 76), and is the element ‘on which the validity of the information is made to rest’ (Halliday 1994: 76).

Chapter Contributors

  • Ann Montemayor-Borsinger ([email protected] - amontemayor-borsinger) 'Cuyo National University'