Historical discourse : the language of time, cause and evaluation

著者

• Coffin, Caroline

書誌事項

Historical discourse : the language of time, cause and evaluation

Caroline Coffin

（Continuum discourse series）

Continuum, c2006

• : hb
• : pb

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hb ISBN 9780826487766

内容説明

'Coffin's functional linguistics perspective provides a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the texts of secondary school history, both those that students read and those they need to learn to write. This is an original and welcome contribution to debates about how to develop students' historical understanding' - Professor Mary Schleppegrell, University of Michigan. 'This book makes a major contribution to the study of historical discourse and while it will be of interest to teachers of history, it will in addition be of considerable interest to those who work in discourse studies generally- linguists, applied linguists and educational linguists.' - Frances Christie, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor, University of Sydney. "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.

目次

• 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
• . Responding to, judging and assessing past events
• 8. Educational implications and applications
• Glossary of technical terms
• References.

巻冊次

: pb ISBN 9781847065735

内容説明

This is an important analysis of the language of time, cause and evaluation in historical texts studied by students at secondary school, looking at the implications for making meaning in historical writing."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. Discourse is one of the most significant concepts of contemporary thinking in the humanities and social sciences as it concerns the ways language mediates and shapes our interactions with each other and with the social, political and cultural formations of our society. "The Continuum Discourse" series aims to capture the fast-developing interest in discourse to provide students, new and experienced teachers and researchers in applied linguistics, ELT and English language with an essential bookshelf. Each book deals with a core topic in discourse studies to give an in-depth, structured and readable introduction to an aspect of the way language in used in real life.

目次

• 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.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA80378607
• ISBN:
  • 0826487769
  • 9781847065735
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 208 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : D13
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Historiography
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA75047972