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LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, Published 2002. Paperback, 349 pp.; 24 cm; LOT Dissertation Series 59. In good+ condition. Red illustrated paper covers show light shelf wear. Binding starting to pull but all pages firmly attached. Pages clean and unmarked. [From back cover] Written by an experienced authors' editor, this doctoral thesis in applied linguistics investigates the English written by Dutch scientists. Does such English contain distinctive Dutch (rather than learner) traits? And how and why do readers from the discourse community react to it? Tracing the outward spiralling of a text from a Dutch scientist's computer screen to the journal page reveals the persons involved along the way. Two studies in which language professionals react to aspects of cohesion in Dutch-authored English texts pave the way for an account of a large-scale reception study in which the Discussions of three Dutch-authored manuscript biology articles were read and annotated by biologists from eight countries. Contents: The Research Topic: Background and Justification; An Overview of the Theories Relevant to Research on the Writing and Reading of Dutch Scientific English; Towards a Characterisation of Dutch Scientific English; Two Reconnaissance Studies Using Dutch and English Subjects to Investigate Cohesion; The Reception Study on Dutch Scientific English; Coherence and the Annotations Relating to Cohesion; The Annotations Affecting Hedging; The Annotations to Verb Tense; Discussion and Conclusions; References; Appendices.