Accessibility and acceptability in technical manuals: a survey of style and grammatical metaphor
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2003
Schriftenreihe:Document design companion series v. 4
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index
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
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 utility texts and how these texts are received and understood by a multifaceted audience. Accessibility is not a new research area and many explanations have been offered over the past years as to why non-experts often have difficulties in comprehending texts written by technological experts. This b
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 183 pages)
ISBN:1423761375
9027296820
9781423761372
9789027296825

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