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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 189. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027290489 9027290482 9789027254245 9027254249 |
ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |