I return to this issue of text-level language in this section. There are two major reasons for doing so: the first is that, as we have seen in the previous chapter, there is evidence to suggest that the way in which language is used in mathematics texts makes a substantial difference to the way in which learners engage with it, and how they are positioned by it, as apprentice mathematicians or as practitioners of a mathematized numeracy event, to build on a distinction suggested by Barwell (2004).