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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004484511_016

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This article presents a pragmatic-constructivist view of language is presented and a field study of some manuals and their writers. The study included manuals for microwave oven cooking and for word processing. Those manuals were chosen because they are part of the introduction of new or relatively new technology; they are distributed to wide and heterogenous audiences. The basic research question in the field study was âWhy are these manuals written the way they are?â and the technical writers interviewed discussed this question in terms of dependency of genres, audiences and technologies. They also emphasised two other major driving forces: concern for Swedish language and culture, Swedishness, and a strong personal interest in the function and development of the technologies.

[â¦] there is a knife moving here. A very deadly one; an intellectual scalpel so swift and sharp you sometimes donât see it moving. You get the illusion that all those parts are just there and are being named as they exist. But they can be named quite differently and organised quite differently depending on how the knife moves.

[â¦] It is important to see this knife for what it is and not to be fooled into thinking that motorcycles or anything else are the way they are just because the knife happened to cut it up that way. It is important to concentrate on the knife itself.

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Quality of technical documentation

ä¸ç¼ï¼ Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication, å·ï¼ 3

ISBN:: 9789004484511

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å°å·åºçæ¥æ:: 01 Jan 1994

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- Languages and Linguistics
  - Applied Linguistics
  - Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis

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