ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the static construal of knowledge across the four student experimental reports produced at different stages of the undergraduate study. The static construal concerns the building of taxonomies through discourse semantic resources. The diversity of taxonomies can be revealed by examining types of entities used in the texts. The depth of taxonomies can be explored by examining the ways in which entities are co-elaborated to one another, as well as their augmentations with dimensions. The diversity and depth of taxonomies can help us to identify the kinds of field that are construed and their developmental features across the texts. The extended use of dimensions suggests that the knowledge of subject-specific taxonomies is more in-depth compared to the previous text. Naming and connecting activities across different tiers are essential of taxonomy building. However, the expansion of the taxonomy is limited. The taxonomies are associated mainly with thing entities and activity entities.
