The Discourse of History

Jing Hao is Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research explores knowledge building in English and Mandarin Chinese and the applications of linguistic understandings to language education and academic literacy. Recent publications include Analysing Scientific Discourse from a Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective (Routledge, 2020). J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality, and critical discourse analysis. Professor Martin was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998 and was Head of its Linguistics Section from 2010–2012. In 2003, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology.

• 1. Building historical knowledge through language: a systemic functional linguistic perspective Jing Hao and J. R. Martin; 2. Cultivating a critical gaze: managing technicality in ancient history teaching Jing Hao and J. R. Martin; 3. Cultivating the value of democracy in history teaching Jing Hao and J. R. Martin; 4. Interpreting history: valuing events in a post-colonial world Y. J. Doran; 5. Coordinating meaning: scaffolding teaching/learning in pedagogic discourse J. R. Martin; 6. explaining what happened: logical metaphors in spanish history textbooks Natalia Leiva; 7. Negotiating values through historical evidence Teresa Oteíza and Claudia Castro; 8. Historical empathy: learning to care about others' suffering through film Mariana Achugar; 9. History in arts: exploring the past to cultivate students' gaze Margarita Vidal Lizama; 10. Describing and taxonomising the phenomena of a glorious past Jing Hao and Pin Wang; 11. Representing minority history in a multi-ethnic country Dongbing Zhang; 12. Expressing attitudes in ancient chinese history Pin Wang.

'This volume explores the discourse of history across three languages (English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese), focusing on the role played by history in shaping culture from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. Written by an impressive team of scholars, the chapters approach the disciplinary knowledge of history with respect to its distinctive choices of language features and provide new linguistic understandings of historical genres. A must-read for anyone interested in systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis and history education.' Chang Chenguang, Professor of Linguistics, Sun Yat-sen University, China