This is a practical guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. It examines a variety of authentic texts, news stories, adverts, novels, official forms, and instruction manuals. It aims to provide a hands-on guide to this important area of language study.

A practical, user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis:

* examines a wide variety of authentic texts including news stories, adverts, novels, official forms, instruction manuals and textbooks
* contains numerous practical activities
* looks at a range of cohesive devices
* concludes by looking at larger patterns in texts, a set of further exercises and a guide for further reading
* provides a hands-on guide to an area of growing importance in language study.