Beyond connectors: The construction of cause in history textbooks

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 298-318

  Achugar, Mariana ^a   Schleppegrell, Mary J ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Historical discourse; Systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746278165     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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