Hyland(1999,2005) discusses the distribution of metadiscourse in philosophical discourse and scientific discourse.

A functional analysis of ideatienal metaphor in scientific discourse;

With this consideration, this article attempts to employ Halliday’s theory on theme and rheme structure, cohesion and coherence to dwell on grammatical metaphor’s textual functions in scientific discourse.

Because of its high abstraction and complexity, scientific discourse often acts as an obstacle for the foreign language learners in the process of learning English.

The thesis makes a contrastive study of thematic progression (TP) patterns between English and Chinese popular scientific texts.

A Contrastive Study on Cohesion in EST & CST at the Textual Level and E-C Translation;

Metaphors in EST (English of Science and Technology);

It is necessary to give prominence to the discourse teaching in the English classes.

In order to cultivate students’ appreciative ability of the English language, this paper focuses its attention on three aspects, they are: discourse teaching, rhetoric teaching and culture teaching.

This paper discusses the theoretical grounds for,the advantage for,and the use of discourse teaching pattern.

Talking about the teaching on language points and discourse in English teaching;

This paper attempts to illustrate the feasibility and necessity of discourse approach in college English teaching by means of holistic principles, psychology, schematic theory and cognitive theory so as to construct an instructional approach which is student oriented under the guidance of schematic theory and cognitive theory.