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Other authors / contributors: | Peikola, Matti.
Skaffari, Janne.
Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa.
Hiltunen, Risto.
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ISBN: | 9789027290489 9027290482 9789027254245 9027254249
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Instructional writing in English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027254245 9027254249
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