How to Analyse Texts: A Toolkit for Students of English

ISBN-13: 9780415836791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 249 str.

Ronald Carter; Angela Goddard

Opis

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.

This textbook includes:

• three parts covering research and study skills, language structure and use, and how texts operate in sociocultural contexts
• a wide range of international real-life texts, including items from "South China Morning Post," art otel Berlin and "Metro "Sweden, which cover digital and print media, advertising, recipes and much more
• objectives and skill review for each section, activities, commentaries, suggestions for independent assignments, and an analysis checklist for students to follow
• a comprehensive glossary/index and further reading section
• a companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/goddard with further links and exercises for students.

Written by two experienced teachers of English Language, "How to Analyse Texts "is key reading for all students of English language and linguistics."

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
List of Texts
Part I: Foundations: researching texts
Part II: Drilling Down: how texts are structured
  Section 1: Graphological and Phonological levels
  Section 2: Lexical and Semantic level
  Section 3: Grammatical level
Part III: Building Up: Texts and Contexts
A checklist for text analysis
Corpus resources and projects
References
Links
Further reading
Glossary and Index

O autorze

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the series co-editor of the Routledge Applied Linguistics, Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics and Routledge English Language Introductions series.

Angela Goddard is a Professor of English Language, a UK Higher Education National Teaching Fellow and Chair of Examiners for English Language A level at a national examination board. She has taught English across different sectors of education and at universities both in the UK and abroad. Her research interests include language and creativity, and the language of new technologies. She has written and edited many books and articles on English Language, including the Routledge Intertext series.