The struggle of the Papacy and the Empire – the conceptual terminology transformation in a textbook series
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2020.4.4Keywords:
termonology, teaching history, applied linguistics, textbook analysisAbstract
This research investigates the construction of the concept of two selected historic leading positions (pope and emperor) in a history textbook series through the text analysis of two textbooks. The fundamental questions are whether due to the context there is a definition of the terms with a term value; how the two concepts are built up for the students at a textual level in the high school textbooks; and what further concepts support the process of this terminology transformation. The theoretical framework of this study is functional cognitive linguistics which provides a dynamic model for the analysis. The analysis of the construction of the chosen terms is based on a corpus. The corpus contains text parts that are directly related to the positions. In addition, the study illustrates the conceptual links appearing at the textual level visually, in the form of a conceptual network.