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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811664803321

Autore

Coffin Caroline <1958->

Titolo

Historical discourse : the language of time, cause, and evaluation / / Caroline Coffin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-283-20516-5

9786613205162

1-4411-2379-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Continuum Discourse Series

Disciplina

900.14

Soggetti

Historiography

History - Study and teaching

Applied linguistics

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Discourse analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction: why history?; 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; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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