HOW TO ANALYSE TEXTS

PART 1

FOUNDATIONS: RESEARCHING TEXTS

CH. 3 SIZING UP THE JOB: QUESTIONS, SCOPE AND FOCUS

CH. 7 REPORTING: WRITING ABOUT TEXTS

PART 2

DRILLING DOWN: HOW TEXTS ARE STRUCTURED

SECTION A

CH. 9 LANGUAGE AS A SEMIOTIC SYSTEM

SECTION B: LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC LEVEL

CH. 14 INTRODUCTION

CH. 15 FREQUENT WORDS

CH. 16 WORDS AND MORPHEMES

CH. 17 FORMING WORDS

CH. 18 WORDS AND SEMANTIC FIELDS

CH. 19 WORDS AND WORD FAMILIES

CH. 20 WORDS AND MULTIPLE MEANINGS

CH. 21 CONNOTATION AND COLLOCATION

CH. 23 LEXICAL COHESION (AND 23.1 REVIEW YOUR SKILLS)

SECTION C: GRAMMATICAL LEVEL

CH. 24 INTRODUCTION

CH. 25 GRAMMAR AND COHESION (AND 25.1)

CH. 26 GRAMMAR AND REPRESENTATION (AND 26.1, .2, .3, .4)

CH. 28 GRAMMAR AND POLITICS (ESPECIALLY 28.2, .3)

PART 3

BUILDING UP: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

CH. 32 THE DIMENSIONS OF TEXTS: PLACE AND TIME (ESPECIALLY 32.5)

CH. 33 TEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES AND POINT OF VIEW

CH. 34 TEXTS AS DISCOURSES: CULTURE AND GENDER

CH. 35 DIALOGUES: GENRE AND INTERTEXTUALITY (REVIEW YOUR SKILLS)

A CHECKLIST FOR TEXT ANALYSIS

GLOSSARY