Text and Discourse Analysis Contributor(s): Salkie, Raphael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415092787 ISBN-13: 9780415092784 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: "Text and Discourse Analysis" is a practical, user-friendly guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. In this skills-enabling volume, Raphael Salkie looks at a range of cohesive devices. After exploring lexical cohesion, he goes on to more complex cohesive devices such as substitution and the use of reference items. Salkie then concludes by looking at larger patterns in texts and provides a guide for further reading. "Text and Discourse Analysis" is data driven, examining a wide variety of authentic texts, including news stories, advertisements, novels, official forms, instruction manuals and textbooks. Supplemented by numerous practical activities, this book will prove a unique and invaluable resource for anyone interested in language and literature. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
Dewey: 401.41 |
LCCN: 94044507 |
Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 7.42" W x 9.1" (0.48 lbs) 128 pages |
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Publisher 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 |