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ACCESSIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY IN TECHNICAL MANUALS
A SURVEY OF STYLE AND GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR |
By: |
Inger Lassen |
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Electronic book text |
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£80.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
9027296820 |
ISBN 13: |
9789027296825 |
Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
1 May, 2003 |
Series: |
Document Design Companion Series 4 |
Pages: |
183 |
Synopsis: |
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 book offers a new approach to accessibility studies by exploring not only style, but also attitudes to style, by asking text consumers which style they prefer for different parts of the manual. A key role is played by the Systemic Functional Linguistics' notion of grammatical metaphor, a stylistic choice that is commonly used in technical literature. Grammatical metaphor - although apparently obstructing the comprehension process of some readers - is a common element in the preferred style that separates the `insiders' from the `outsiders'.An explanation of this rather surprising result is offered by resorting to Critical Discourse Analysis. |
Publication: |
Netherlands |
Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
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