ISBN-13: 9780415222754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415222754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str.
This satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on new communication technologies. Written in a clear style, it combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries. It can be used individually or in conjunction with the series core textbook, Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis. Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, this work: explores the nature of the electronic word and presents the new types of text in which it is found; examines the impact of the rapid technological change we are living through; analyzes different texts, including e-mail and answerphone messages, webpages, faxes, computer games and articles about IT; provides detailed guidance on downloading material from the web, gives URLs to visit, and includes a dedicated webpage; and includes a comprehensive glossary of terms.