linguistlist.org>
Editor for this issue: Madhavi Jammalamadaka <madhulinguistlist.org>
benjamins.com>Title: Re/reading the past Subtitle: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 8 Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC_8 Editor: J.R. Martin, University of Sydney Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna Hardback: ISBN: 1588114317, Pages: vi, 277 pp., Price: USD 90.00 Comment: Hardback: ISBN: 9027226989, Pages: vi, 277 pp., Price: EUR 90.00 Abstract: Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the c omplementary 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 whi ch compete for official acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Scienc es. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and evaluation of past events in a variety of places around the world. It is especially timel y in its focus on the construction of time and value in a post-colonial wor ld where history discourses are central to on-going processes of reconcilia tion, debates on war crimes, and the issues of amnesty and restitution. As such the book fills a significant gap in interdisciplinary debates as well as in register and genre analysis, and will be of general interest to histo rians, political scientists and discourse analysts as well as students and teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academ ic Purposes). Table of contents Introduction J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak 1 I. Constructing time and value: Semiotic resources Making history: Grammar for interpretation J.R. Martin II. Recent past: Telling stories News as history: Your daily gossip Peter R.R. White Challenging media censoring: Writing between the lines in the face of stringent restrictions Christine Anthonissen III. Distant past: Making history The discursive construction of individual memories: How Austrian ehrmacht soldiers remember 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 IV. Yesteryear: Instilling memories Reconstruals of the past settlement or invasion? The role of JUDGEMENT analysis Caroline Coffin Pearl Harbor in Japanese high school history textbooks: The grammar and semantics of responsibility Christopher Barnard Index Lingfield(s): Pragmatics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8340.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue