Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis Bowring, Maggie; Carter, Ronald; Goddard, Angela; Reah, Danuta and Sanger, Keith

Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis Bowring, Maggie; Carter, Ronald; Goddard, Angela; Reah, Danuta and Sanger, Keith

ISBN 10: 0415234654 / ISBN 13: 9780415234658

Editore: Routledge, 2001

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Titolo: Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to ...

Casa editrice: Routledge

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: New

Edizione: seconda edizione

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Riassunto:

This best-selling introduction to language studies includes a huge range of activities and projects, introducing core areas of language structure and grammar through analysis of real texts. Ideal for both A level and beginning undergraduate students, this second edition includes:

• an introductory section on how to use the book
• material on spoken and written language, children's language, language and ideology
• an range of texts, including advertisements, beer mats, horoscopes, newspaper articles, junk mail, political speeches
• extensions suggesting project work with an answer key at the back
• a concluding section giving students practice in analyzing the different topics explored throughout the book.

Recensione:

'a most flexible book... an invaluable resource both for the quality and presentation of its source material and for the clarity and economy of its writing.' - Renee Stanton, The English and Media Magazine

'[this] book, through which a range of insights are made eminently accessible, without condescension... give[s] the serious student not only a wide range of knowledge, but also a high degree of communicative competence.' - Jean-Pierre can Noppen, Linguistics and Poetics Journal