How to Analyse Texts

<p><em>How to Analyse Texts </em>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.</p><p>This textbook includes:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>three parts covering research and study skills, language structure and use, and how texts operate in sociocultural contexts </li> <li>a wide range of international real-life texts, including items from <em>South China Morning Post</em>, art’otel Berlin and <em>Metro</em> Sweden, which cover digital and print media, advertising, recipes and much more </li> <li>objectives and skill review for each section, activities, commentaries, suggestions for independent assignments, and an analysis checklist for students to follow </li> <li>a combined glossary and index and a comprehensive further reading section </li> <li>a companion website at <b>www.routledge.com/cw/goddard</b> with further links and exercises for students. </li> </ul><p>Written by two experienced teachers of English Language, <em>How to Analyse Texts </em>is key reading for all students of English language and linguistics.</p> <p>Acknowledgements<br>List of Texts<br>Part I: Foundations: researching texts<br>Part II: Drilling Down: how texts are structured<br> Section 1: Graphological and Phonological levels<br> Section 2: Lexical and Semantic level <br> Section 3: Grammatical level<br>Part III: Building Up: Texts and Contexts<br>A checklist for text analysis<br>Corpus resources and projects<br>References<br>Links <br>Further reading<br>Glossary and Index</p>