How to Analyse Texts - A toolkit for students of English

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. Containing a wide range of real-life texts drawn from all over the world, full of hands-on activities for students, and accompanied by a companion website, this book is key reading for all students of English Language and Linguistics.