Re/Reading the Past Critical and Functional Perspectives on Time and Value

1. Introduction (by Martin, J.R.) 2. I. Constructing time and value: Semiotic resources 3. Making history: Grammar for interpretation (by Martin, J.R.) 4. II. Recent past: Telling stories 5. News as history: Your daily gossip (by White, Peter R.R.) 6. Challenging media censoring: Writing between the lines in the face of stringent restrictions (by Anthonissen, Christine) 7. III. Distant past: Making history 8. The discursive construction of individual memories: How Austrian "Wehrmacht" soldiers remember WWII (by Benke, Gertraud) 9. The languages of the past: On the re-construction of a collective history through individual stories (by Menz, Florian) 10. Orthopraxy, writing and identity: Shaping lives through borrowed genres in Congo (by Blommaert, Jan) 11. History as discourse discourse as history: "The rise of modern China" - A history exhibition in post-colonial Hong Kong (by Flowerdew, John) 12. IV. Yesteryear: Instilling memories 13. Reconstruals of the past - settlement or invasion?: The role of JUDGEMENT analysis (by Coffin, Caroline) 14. Pearl Harbor in Japanese high school history textbooks: The grammar and semantics of responsibility (by Barnard, Christopher) 15. Index