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156[L#19] (Sub-function 4) In the 1970s and the early 1980s two discoveries byexperimental psychologists led to a notable advance in our knowledge aboutlinguistic development and about the ways in which children learn to read. Onediscovery was of the great difficulties that young children have in makingphonological distinctions which are transparently obvious to most adults — or, atany rate, to most literate adults. ...The second significant discovery was of a strong connection between this formof awareness, which became known as phonological awareness, and the businessof learning to read.[E#8] (Sub-function 4) Since the 1960s, the monetarist school has argued foreliminating discretionary monetary policy by central banks. In the 1980s aheterogeneous group of monetary economists (including F. A. Hayek, MiltonFriedman, Richard H. Timberlake, Leland B. Yeager and this reviewer) has gonea function farther, and argued for eliminating central banks.In addition to providing background knowledge to introduce the book, topicgeneralizations have at least one additional rhetorical sub-function. By making appealsto other experts, reviewers project an authoritative self-image since these experts arerepresented as authorities that aver the generalization made by the reviewer.(iii) By using Code Glosses (see Chapter 4) or explanations of technical termsrelated to the title or topic of the book in generalizations (Sub-function 4):[L#20] (Sub-function 4) Prosody in this case is defined as the characteristic ofrelative prominence for some syllables (stress).(iv) By using affirmative statements, the reviewer presents knowledge as facts orgeneral truth, i.e., information that she knows to be the case in the discipline undervariable circumstances.