附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-331).
Chapter 1 Signs and sounds -- chapter 2 Words and things -- chapter 3 Sentences and structures -- chapter 4 Text and context: Written discourse -- chapter 5 Text and context: Spoken discourse -- chapter 6 Applications.
摘要:Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis provides a basic foundation for understanding aspects of English language crucial in the analysis of text. The major topics covered include writing, the sound system of spoken English, words, sentence grammar and discourse construction.The wide range of texts examined include literary extracts from prose fiction (Jeanette Winterson, Anne Tyler), poetry (D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Atwood), drama (John Godber) and graphic novels (Neil Gaiman), but also a huge diversity of texts from contemporary media: newspaper articles, advertisements (Gap, K.
