How to analyse texts : a toolkit for students of english /
by Ronald Carter and Angela Goddard.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations
chapter Introduction -- part PART I Foundations: researching texts -- chapter 1 Your materials -- chapter 2 Gathering more materials -- chapter 3 Sizing up the job: questions, scope and focus -- chapter 4 The right tools for the job: research methods -- chapter 5 Preparing the ground: reading and note-making skills -- chapter 6 Analysing -- chapter 7 Reporting: writing about texts -- part PART II Drilling down: how texts are structured -- chapter Section A: Graphological and phonological levels -- chapter Section B: Lexical and semantic level -- chapter Section C: Grammatical level -- part PART III Building Up: texts and contexts -- chapter 32 The dimensions of texts: place and time -- chapter 33 Textual perspectives and point of view -- chapter 34 Texts as discourses: culture and gender -- chapter 35 Dialogues: genre and intertextuality -- chapter A checklist for text analysis -- chapter Corpus resources and projects -- chapter References -- chapter Links to online references -- chapter Further reading -- chapter Glossary/Index -- chapter List of texts.
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.
9781315683225 9781317405511 9781317405528
10.4324/9781315683226 doi
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)