Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 189
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 189.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280862
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Other authors / contributors:Peikola, Matti.
Skaffari, Janne.
Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa.
Hiltunen, Risto.
ISBN:9789027290489
9027290482
9789027254245
9027254249
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Instructional writing in English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027254245 9027254249