Historical Discourse: The Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation

by Caroline Coffin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826487769
• ISBN13: 9780826487766
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"