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Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (Ntertext (London, England).) - Softcover
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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.
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'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
Synopsis
This a revised and updated version of this introductory language text book. Including a range of activities and projects, the book introduces the core areas of language structure and grammar through the analysis of real texts. This edition includes: an introductory section on how to use the book; material on differences between spoken and written language; children's language; language and ideology; an updated range of texts, including advertisements, beer mats, horoscopes, newspaper articles, junk mail, comedy sketches, political speeches, letters; more extensions suggesting project work and an answer key at the back; a concluding section including further analyses, which gives the student practice in analyzing all the different aspects explored throughout the book.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0415234654
- ISBN 13 9780415234658
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages368
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