Re/reading the past -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Aims and scope -- SFL perspectives -- CDA perspectives -- Discourses on/about history -- History as discourse -- Preview -- References -- Part I. Constructing time and value -- Making history -- Past in present -- Whose history? -- Marking time -- Abstraction -- Cause -- Value -- Arguing -- Mapping histories -- Deconstructing history -- More to history -- Notes -- Texts cited -- References -- Part II. Recent past -- News as history -- Introduction -- The issues reports, genre structure and patterns of evaluation -- Event stories and patterns of evaluation -- The rhetorical functionality of the standard news report -- Conclusion: News as narrative or gossip -- Notes -- References -- Challenging media censoring -- Introduction -- Language as a medium in reporting news -- Contextual information -- The functions of news reports -- The functions of news reports generally -- The functions of censorship -- The functions of news reports which defy censorship -- The form of news reports which defy censorship -- Linguistic theory in analysis of news reports -- Relating form to function in specific censorship-defying texts -- Visibly crossing out potentially offensive words and phrases (see Figure 2) -- Direct reference to the restrictions -- indirect reference to restricted material (see Figure 3) -- Verbal as opposed to visual images (see Figure 4) -- Notes -- References -- Part III. Distant past -- The discursive construction of individual memories -- Introduction -- The construction of history -- Methodology -- The strategies surveyed -- The strategy of ``claiming victim-hood'' -- The strategy of ``knowledge maintenance'' -- The strategy of positive self-construction -- Strategic agency -- Notes -- References -- The languages of the past.

Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Historical survey -- Setting and content of the TV discussion -- Strategies in the presentation of different historical views -- The term Austro-Fascism as a membership categorisation device -- The German Wehrmacht -- Turning stories into history: The role of the moderator -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Orthopraxy, writing and identity -- Introduction -- Orthopraxy and having a life -- Two histories -- Borrowed genres -- The relocation of resources and functions -- Conclusion: Orthopraxy, genre and subjectivity -- Note -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- History as discourse -- discourse as history -- Background -- History and national identity -- Preferred readings -- Analysis -- Conditions of production -- Textual analysis -- Selection of texts -- A transformational model of text selection -- The language of the texts -- Conditions of reception -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV. Yesteryear -- Reconstruals of the past - settlement or invasion? -- Introduction. Approaches to history as a discursive practice: The role of evaluation -- Systems for giving value to the past: A systemic linguistic perspective -- Judging the past -- Reconstruals of the past - settlement or invasion? (A judgement analysis) -- Patterns of judgement in school history narratives: `Objectivity' as a rhetorical effect -- The contemporary history classroom - tools for revaluing the past -- Conclusion: The value of `value' tools -- References -- Pearl Harbor in Japanese high school history textbooks -- Introduction -- Background to the history controversy in Japan -- Data and methodology -- Analysis -- Participants and processes -- Primacy of meaning -- Recapitulation -- Statistical analysis -- Attacker and Attack -- Primacy of meaning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Examples from the following textbooks have been quoted in this paper -- Index -- The series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE.