Publications

Publication details [#49129]

Oteiza, Teresa and Derrin Pinto. 2008. Agency, responsibility and silence in the construction of contemporary history in Chile and Spain. Discourse & Society 19 (3) : 333–358.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | history | political system | silence | textbook

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper uses systemic functional linguistics to explore how actual history textbooks employed in secondary schools in Chile and Spain portary the history of dictatorships and subsequent transitions to democracy.