Agency, responsibility and silence in the construction of contemporary history in Chile and Spain

Discourse and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-358

  Oteza, Teresa ^a   Pinto, Derrin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisal analysis; History textbooks; Pedagogical discourse of history; Systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449120716     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508088964     Document Type: Article

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