ABSTRACT
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 combined glossary and index and a comprehensive 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
part |35 pages
Foundations
part |145 pages
Drilling down
section |37 pages
Graphological and Phonological Levels
chapter |1 pages
Definitions
chapter |2 pages
Language as a semiotic system
chapter |2 pages
What are the rules?
chapter |8 pages
Signs and symbols
chapter |14 pages
Sounds and Symbols
chapter |9 pages
Speech, writing, and multimodality
section |42 pages
Lexical and Semantic Level
chapter |1 pages
Introduction
chapter |5 pages
Frequent words
chapter |2 pages
Words and morphemes
chapter |6 pages
Forming words
chapter |4 pages
Words and semantic fields
chapter |2 pages
Words and word families
chapter |3 pages
Words and multiple meanings
chapter |7 pages
Connotation and collocation
chapter |3 pages
Words and metaphors
chapter |8 pages
Lexical cohesion
section |64 pages
Grammatical Level
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
chapter |3 pages
Grammar and cohesion
chapter |11 pages
Grammar and representation
chapter |7 pages
Grammar, speech and language change
chapter |5 pages
Grammar and politics
chapter |2 pages
Conversational grammar
chapter |2 pages
Texting grammar
chapter |31 pages
Creative grammar
part |32 pages
Building up