Historical discourse : the language of time, cause and evaluation / Caroline Coffin.
Historical discourse : the language of time, cause and evaluation / Caroline Coffin.
Historical discourse : the language of time, cause and evaluation / Caroline Coffin.
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London : Continuum, c2006.
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N907.2/205
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English
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xvi, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 respresentations of time -- 6. Building different types of causal expla...
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London : Continuum, c2006.
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England
Date Published
c2006.
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"Historical Discourse analysis the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in texts ... Coffin demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts that writing about the past requires different genres, and lexical and grammatical structures. In this analysis, language emerges as a powerful tool for making meaning in historica...
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Historical discourse : the language of time, cause and evaluation / Caroline Coffin.
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Continuum discourse series.
Includes glossary of terms.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.
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c2006.
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N907.2/205
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74VKOzZ4Kp6X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOzZ4Kp6X
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0826487769
9780826487766
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907.2
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991022481129702626
