Beschreibung:
How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts - spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource which can be used in different ways across a range of courses and at different levels. Containing a wide range of real-life texts drawn from all over the world, full of hands-on activities for students, and accompanied by a companion website, this book is key reading for all students of English Language and Linguistics.
AcknowledgementsList of TextsPart I: Foundations: researching textsPart II: Drilling Down: how texts are structured Section 1: Graphological and Phonological levels Section 2: Lexical and Semantic level Section 3: Grammatical levelPart III: Building Up: Texts and ContextsA checklist for text analysisCorpus resources and projectsReferencesLinks Further readingGlossary and Index