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OverviewTaking a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective, this book explores how language builds our knowledge about the past and gives value to historical events, thereby shaping contemporary culture. It brings together cutting-edge research from an international team of scholars to provide a detailed study of texts from three different world languages (English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese) – revealing how the discourse of history is constructed in these languages. Each chapter provides examples and step-by-step analyses of how knowledge and value are constructed in history texts, drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics to develop theory and description in relation to text analysis. It also makes connections with disciplinary literacy and history education, showing how linguistic findings can benefit the teaching and learning of historical literacy. Providing theoretical and analytical foundations for studies of the discourse of history, it is essential reading for anyone interested in literacy, discourse analysis, and language description. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jing Hao (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) , J. R. Martin (University of Sydney)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781316519653ISBN 10: 1316519651 Pages: 358 Publication Date: 23 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available, will be POD This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsReviews'This volume explores the discourse of history across three languages (English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese), focusing on the role played by history in shaping culture from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. Written by an impressive team of scholars, the chapters approach the disciplinary knowledge of history with respect to its distinctive choices of language features and provide new linguistic understandings of historical genres. A must-read for anyone interested in systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis and history education.' Chang Chenguang, Professor of Linguistics, Sun Yat-sen University, China 'This book is a treasure trove of understandings of the construction of school history across languages, cultures and educational contexts. The meaning-based approach used makes explicit not just the construction of history as field, but also how values, emotions and voices in texts and classroom discussions reveal positionings towards events in both past and present cultural contexts. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers of history, and for anyone wanting to know how an informed and critical view of history discourse can be cultivated.' Anne McCabe, Associate Professor, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain 'This volume offers new ways of analyzing language that draw on frameworks developed over the past two decades, providing a substantive update on the study of historical and educational discourses informed by systemic functional linguistics. New insights on ideational meaning and its interaction with interpersonal meaning are a key strength of the volume.' Mary J. Schleppegrell, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Author InformationJing Hao is Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research explores knowledge building in English and Mandarin Chinese and the applications of linguistic understandings to language education and academic literacy. Recent publications include Analysing Scientific Discourse from a Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective (Routledge, 2020). J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality, and critical discourse analysis. Professor Martin was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998 and was Head of its Linguistics Section from 2010–2012. In 2003, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |