Bővebb leírás
An account of how meaning is expressed and interpreted in spoken and written texts. The book explains key concepts like context, co-text and schema and explores their relevance to an understanding of how texts are constructed and interpreted. It discusses the relationship between analysis and interpretation with particular reference to the work of critical discourse analysis, and looks at the contribution that corpus linguistics has made to the analysis and interpretation of text.
How can it be used?
As a core text for undergraduate applied linguistics, linguistics, and language study programmes; as pre-reading for postgraduate programmes.
Who is it for?
university students, teachers, teachers in training, teacher trainers, lecturers
Key features
a concise but comprehensive survery
Includes suggestions for further study and reading, and a glossary.
