This book traces the development of the scientific journal article
as a linguistic genre in terms of its linguistic features. It looks
at Chaucer's "Treatise on the Astrolabe", as the first technical
text written in English. Texts by Boyle, Power and Hooke from the
late seventeenth century are then considered. This leads to the
detailed analysis of a corpus of texts taken from the Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society covering the period 1700 to 1980.
The main linguistic features studied are passive forms, first
person pronouns, nominalization, and thematic structure. From the
study of these linguistic features emerges a picture of the
development of science where the physical sciences can be
distinguished form the biological. The physical sciences are
experimental from the beginning of this period, whereas the
biological sciences only begin to become so towards the middle of
the nineteenth century. Until then they are observational. With the
turn of the twentieth century the physical sciences adopt
mathematical modelling as their major focus, a feature which has
not affected the biological sector by the end of the period under
study. Thus it is seen that the language is intimately related to
the context within which it is produced.
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