Instructional Writing in English : Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen PDF
Edited by Peikola Matti Peikola, Skaffari Janne Skaffari, Tanskanen Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Part of the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series series
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The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English.
This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language.
Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres.
The primary texts, from Ælfric's homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction.
The materials nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose.
Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume.
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:29/07/2009
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:29/07/2009
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- ISBN:9789027290489
