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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 ...
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 ?lfric'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 nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose. Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing
from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined
discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume.
