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Evaluative Language in Engineering Writing: The Grammar of Persuasion

Evaluative Language in Engineering Writing: The Grammar of Persuasion

Simpson-Smith, Claire

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics

LinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1350475130
ISBN13: 9781350475137
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines strategic language use in professional engineering written reports, illustrating how writers create a persuasive stance within an objective style. It describes engineering writing through a close analysis of interpersonal language, using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), complemented with quantitative corpus linguistics methods and interpreted through concepts drawn from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). This description demonstrates how engineering writers have a strong preference for a certain type of evaluative language, with a dominant stance focused on the worthiness of things and processes. It is also demonstrates that engineering writers make strategic choices in their use of interpersonal language towards a certain aim, particularly in documents written to gain approval of a project by a regulatory body.

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