
Re/reading the past
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- Re/reading the past
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Aims and scope
- SFL perspectives
- CDA perspectives
- Discourses on/about history
- History as discourse
- Preview
- References
- Part I. Constructing time and value
- Making history
- Past in present
- Whose history?
- Marking time
- Abstraction
- Cause
- Value
- Arguing
- Mapping histories
- Deconstructing history
- More to history
- Notes
- Texts cited
- References
- Part II. Recent past
- News as history
- Introduction
- The issues reports, genre structure and patterns of evaluation
- Event stories and patterns of evaluation
- The rhetorical functionality of the standard news report
- Conclusion: News as narrative or gossip
- Notes
- References
- Challenging media censoring
- Introduction
- Language as a medium in reporting news
- Contextual information
- The functions of news reports
- The functions of news reports generally
- The functions of censorship
- The functions of news reports which defy censorship
- The form of news reports which defy censorship
- Linguistic theory in analysis of news reports
- Relating form to function in specific censorship-defying texts
- Visibly crossing out potentially offensive words and phrases (see Figure 2)
- Direct reference to the restrictions
- indirect reference to restricted material (see Figure 3)
- Verbal as opposed to visual images (see Figure 4)
- Notes
- References
- Part III. Distant past
- The discursive construction of individual memories
- Introduction
- The construction of history
- Methodology
- The strategies surveyed
- The strategy of ``claiming victim-hood''
- The strategy of ``knowledge maintenance''
- The strategy of positive self-construction
- Strategic agency
- Notes
- References
- The languages of the past
- Introduction
- Theoretical framework
- Historical survey
- Setting and content of the TV discussion
- Strategies in the presentation of different historical views
- The term Austro-Fascism as a membership categorisation device
- The German Wehrmacht
- Turning stories into history: The role of the moderator
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Orthopraxy, writing and identity
- Introduction
- Orthopraxy and having a life
- Two histories
- Borrowed genres
- The relocation of resources and functions
- Conclusion: Orthopraxy, genre and subjectivity
- Note
- References
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- History as discourse
- discourse as history
- Background
- History and national identity
- Preferred readings
- Analysis
- Conditions of production
- Textual analysis
- Selection of texts
- A transformational model of text selection
- The language of the texts
- Conditions of reception
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part IV. Yesteryear
- Reconstruals of the past - settlement or invasion?
- Introduction. Approaches to history as a discursive practice: The role of evaluation
- Systems for giving value to the past: A systemic linguistic perspective
- Judging the past
- Reconstruals of the past - settlement or invasion? (A judgement analysis)
- Patterns of judgement in school history narratives: `Objectivity' as a rhetorical effect
- The contemporary history classroom - tools for revaluing the past
- Conclusion: The value of `value' tools
- References
- Pearl Harbor in Japanese high school history textbooks
- Introduction
- Background to the history controversy in Japan
- Data and methodology
- Analysis
- Participants and processes
- Primacy of meaning
- Recapitulation
- Statistical analysis
- Attacker and Attack
- Primacy of meaning
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Examples from the following textbooks have been quoted in this paper
- Index
- The series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
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