| Description |
vi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 8 |
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Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture. 1569-9463 ; v. 8
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| Contents |
Introduction / J. R. Martin and Ruth Wodak -- Making history: Grammar for interpretation / J. R. Martin -- News as history: Your daily gossip / P. R. R. White -- Challenging media censoring: Writing between the lines in the face of stringent restrictions / Christine Anthonissen -- The discursive construction of individual memories: How Austrian "Wehrmacht" soldiers remember WWII / Gertraud Benke and Ruth Wodak -- The languages of the past: On the re-construction of a collective history through individual stories / Florian Menz -- Orthopraxy, writing and identity: Shaping lives through borrowed genres in Congo / Jan Blommaert -- History as discourse; discourse as history: "The rise of modern China" - A history exhibition in post-colonial Hong Kong / John Flowerdew -- Reconstruals of the past - settlement or invasion? The role of Judgement analysis / Caroline Coffin |
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Pearl Harbor in Japanese high school history textbooks: The grammar and semantics of responsibility / Christopher Barnard |
| Summary |
Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives which compete for official acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Sciences. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and evaluation of |
| Analysis |
Sprog Sprogvidenskab og alment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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History -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Martin, J. R., 1950-
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Wodak, Ruth, 1950-
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| LC no. |
2003057867 |
| ISBN |
1588114317 alkaline paper |
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