Historical Discourse: The Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation (Continuum Discourse)

by Caroline Coffin (Author)

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  2009

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  In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, this work demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. It shows that language is a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing.