Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: How Big is a Language? On the Power of Language -- PART ONE: GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR -- Editor's Introduction -- 1 Language and the Reshaping of Human Experience -- 2 Language and Knowledge: the 'Unpacking' of Text -- 3 Things and Relations: Regrammaticizing Experience as Technical Knowledge -- 4 The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause -- PART TWO: SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH -- Editor's Introduction -- 5 On the Language of Physical Science -- 6 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English -- 7 On the Grammar of Scientific English -- 8 Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.