Publications

Publication details [#7303]

Oster, Sandra. 1981. The use of tenses in 'reporting past literature' in EST. In Selinker, Larry, Elaine Tarone and Victor Hanzeli, eds. English for academic and technical purposes: Studies in honor of Louis Trimble. Newbury House. pp. 76–90.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

scientific language | technical language | tense

Language as a subject

Annotation

On the relationship between verb tenses and the rhetorical function of 'reporting past literature' in English for Science and Technology.