Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen /
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 represen...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 189. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=284030 |
| Summary: | 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 non. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290489 9027290482 9789027254245 9027254249 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |