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Historical Discourse : the Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation.
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 de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2009.
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| Colección: | Continuum Discourse.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 l. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (225 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441123794 1441123792 1283205165 9781283205160 9781847065735 1847065732 |