Historical Discourse

The Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation

AvCaroline Coffin

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Beskrivning

Historical Discourse analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, Caroline Coffin demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. In this analysis, language emerges as a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing. Presupposing no prior knowledge of systemic functional linguistics, this insightful book will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and discourse analysis, as well as history educators.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-01-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441123794
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Continuum Discourse

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Dr Caroline Coffin is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication at the Open University, UK.

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"Coffin's volume is a worthy addition to the Continuum Discourse series, seeking, as it does, to explore the nature of historical discourse, its purposes, its distinctive features and its pleasures."

Innehållsförteckning

1. History as academic discipline 2. The systemic functional linguistic approach to discourse analysis 3. The role of the recording genres 4. The role of the explaining and arguing genres 5. Learning historically valued representations of time 6. Building different types of causal explanations 7. Responding to, judging and assessing past events 8. Educational implications and applications Glossary of technical terms References Index