Text and Discourse Analysis

• Author(s): Raphael Salkie,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 128
• ISBN_10: 113487202X
  ISBN_13: 9781134872022
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics ,

Description:...

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.