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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Dr Caroline Coffin is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication at the Open University, UK.
Zusammenfassung
A solid, research-based monograph - available for the first time in paperback
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781847065735
ISBN-10: 1847065732
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coffin, Caroline
Redaktion: Hyland, Ken
Hersteller: Continnuum-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Caroline Coffin
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2009
Gewicht: 0,335 kg
Artikel-ID: 132129400