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Publication details [#14348]
Laurén, Christer. 2007. The interdependence of LSP text and literary text. In Ahmad, Khurshid and Margaret Rogers, eds. Evidence-based LSP: translation, text and terminology (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 47). Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 285–295.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
innovation in scientific text traditions may originate from literary texts. New forms, new text traditions, give new possibilities of thinking and, at the same time, are expression of a different style of thought. Thus the formal metamorphoses of literature also influence scientific thinking and scientific text traditions. In this article the author compares in pairs one literary text exemplar or tradition with one LSP exemplar and tries to find representatives of the metamorphoses and innovations mentioned. Adopting a historical approach, the author discusses oriental 'polythematics', the classical Greek tradition, the early novel and oberservational science, French realism and Darwin, and modern trends.
Source : A. Matthyssen