ABSTRACT
The language of schooling was described in general terms in chapter 3, focusing on the many commonalities in the linguistic features of the texts and tasks of different academic disciplines. Chapter 4 explored some grammatical and discourse features of the expository essay to demonstrate how a particular genre of schooling requires control of those linguistic features. This chapter extends this grammatical analysis to examine two subject areas of schooling, science and history, to show how the register features are realized in different ways in different disciplines, and to show what the linguistic features common to those disciplines reveal about academic registers more generally.
