Louis Trimble
Biographic Data
| ID | 5998490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Trimble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Trimble |
| SIGNATURE | TRIMBLE L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English for Science and Technology
English for Specific Purposes
Rhetorical Function-Shifts in EST Discourse
This paper is a follow-up to the article Presuppositional Information in EST Discourse, by the same authors (TESOL Quarterly, 1976). In both these papers we study what appears to be a serious learning problem for advanced learners attempting to learn to read their subject matter in English: namely, the apparent inability of the learner to gain access to the total meaning of a written piece of EST discourse even when he or she may be able to under…
Presuppositional Rhetorical Information in EST Discourse
This paper examines from a discourse point of view a well-known difficulty in learning a second language: the inability of a learner to comprehend the total discourse in a paragraph even when he may understand all the words in each sentence and/or all of the sentences in that paragraph. This difficulty has become particularly apparent to us from our observations of non-native learners of scientific and technical subject matter in the U.S. Our EST…
Technical Rhetorical Principles and Grammatical Choice
Recently, much interest has been shown in the notion in the English of Science and Technology (EST), and in the effect that specific rhetorical choices have upon grammatical forms. This paper 1) defines rhetoric in EST in terms of the essential notion conceptual paragraph; 2) presents and describes the two major categories of relational rhetorical principles-natural and logical; 3) presents examples of several of these principles and examines the…
Presuppositional Rhetorical Information in EST Discourse
This paper examines from a discourse point of view a well-known difficulty in learning a second language: the inability of a learner to comprehend the total discourse in a paragraph even when he may understand all the words in each sentence and/or all of the sentences in that paragraph. This difficulty has become particularly apparent to us from our observations of non-native learners of scientific and technical subject matter in the U.S. Our EST…
Rhetorical Function-Shifts in EST Discourse
This paper is a follow-up to the article Presuppositional Information in EST Discourse, by the same authors (TESOL Quarterly, 1976). In both these papers we study what appears to be a serious learning problem for advanced learners attempting to learn to read their subject matter in English: namely, the apparent inability of the learner to gain access to the total meaning of a written piece of EST discourse even when he or she may be able to under…
Technical Rhetorical Principles and Grammatical Choice
Recently, much interest has been shown in the notion in the English of Science and Technology (EST), and in the effect that specific rhetorical choices have upon grammatical forms. This paper 1) defines rhetoric in EST in terms of the essential notion conceptual paragraph; 2) presents and describes the two major categories of relational rhetorical principles-natural and logical; 3) presents examples of several of these principles and examines the…
Technical Rhetorical Principles and Grammatical Choice
Recently, much interest has been shown in the notion in the English of Science and Technology (EST), and in the effect that specific rhetorical choices have upon grammatical forms. This paper 1) defines rhetoric in EST in terms of the essential notion conceptual paragraph; 2) presents and describes the two major categories of relational rhetorical principles-natural and logical; 3) presents examples of several of these principles and examines the…
Presuppositional Rhetorical Information in EST Discourse
This paper examines from a discourse point of view a well-known difficulty in learning a second language: the inability of a learner to comprehend the total discourse in a paragraph even when he may understand all the words in each sentence and/or all of the sentences in that paragraph. This difficulty has become particularly apparent to us from our observations of non-native learners of scientific and technical subject matter in the U.S. Our EST…
Rhetorical Function-Shifts in EST Discourse
This paper is a follow-up to the article Presuppositional Information in EST Discourse, by the same authors (TESOL Quarterly, 1976). In both these papers we study what appears to be a serious learning problem for advanced learners attempting to learn to read their subject matter in English: namely, the apparent inability of the learner to gain access to the total meaning of a written piece of EST discourse even when he or she may be able to under…
English for Specific Purposes
English for Science and Technology
Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Rhetorical question (3 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 works) · Computer Science (1 work) · Discourse analysis (1 work) · Engineering (1 work)