Author Description

"Historical Discourse analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in texts which students at secondary school are required to read, as well as their own writing for assessment. In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialized language, Caroline 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 historical writing."--Jacket.