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Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen /

The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peikola, Matti, Skaffari, Janne, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Hiltunen, Risto
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 189.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric's homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials non.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027290489
9027290482
9789027254245
9027254249
ISSN:0922-842X ;