Publications

Publication details [#39433]

McCabe, Anne. 2004. Mood and modality in Spanish and English history textbooks: The construction of authority. Pages 1–29. Text 24 (1) : 1–29.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

authority | genre | hedge | history | textbook

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This analytic study of mood and modality in American and Spanish history textbooks confirms that school textbooks display less hedging than other academic writing genres.