This collection brings together recent work of leading scholars in linguistics, rhetoric, critical theory and education. It looks at the distinctive language of science and technology and the role it plays in building up scientific understandings of the world and explores this language in a range of contexts, from research and industry to education, popular science writing and science fiction. This book examines science discourse from a number of differing perspectives, drawing on new rhetoric, functional linguistics and critical theory. Contributors include M.A.K. Halliday, Charles Bazerman, Jay Lemke and Frances Christie.