The theme of this comparative study is how culture shapes scientific texts. Culturality is a major feature of textuality above and beyond other features. By examining scientific journal articles in interlingual, interdisciplinary, and diachronic comparison, the author shows that scientific texts are culture-specific with respect to language, history and discipline, and that such differences are socio-cultural in nature.

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Jin Zhao, Tongji-Universität, Shanghai, China.