Description:This volume is concerned with the discourse of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL) - covering a range of discourse about the past, including discourses of the academic discipline of history. It deals with the construction of time and value in a post-colonial (and post-WWII) world where discourses of or about history and the past are central to on-going processes of reconciliation, debates on war crimes and restitution. It also brings to this analysis two leading analytical paradigms (CDA/SFL) as far as critical linguistic interpretation is concerned. The book also fills an important gap in register analysis; compared with the analysis of science discourse for example, work on historical discourse is relatively diffuse.