How to Analyse Texts

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts – spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource which can be used in different ways across a range of courses and at different levels. This textbook includes: • three parts covering research and study skills, language structure and use, and how texts operate in sociocultural contexts • a wide range of international real-life texts, including items from South China Morning Post, art’otel Berlin and Metro Sweden, which cover digital and print media, advertising, recipes and much more • objectives and skill review for each section, activities, commentaries, suggestions for independent assignments, and an analysis checklist for students to follow • a combined