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Title Working with texts : a core introduction to language analysis / Ronald Carter ... [and others]
Edition Second edition
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2001

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Description xviii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Intertext
Intertext series
Intertext (London, England)
Contents Unit 1. Signs and sounds -- Signs -- Sounds -- Unit 2. Words and things -- What are Words Made of? -- Words and Meanings -- Words and Histories -- Unit 3. Sentences and structures -- Nouns and Patterns -- Verbs and Patterns -- Sentences and Patterns -- Unit 4. Text and context: written discourse -- Make and Mend -- Tracing the Patterns -- The Textile Industry -- Unit 5. Text and context: spoken discourse -- Speech Events -- Storytelling -- Speeches -- Conversation -- The Representation of Talk -- Unit 6. Applications
Analysis Discourse analysis
Notes Previous ed.: Working with texts : a core book for language analysis / Maggie Bowring ... [et al.], c1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326) and indexes
Subject English language -- Discourse analysis.
English language -- Discourse analysis -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Language and languages -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Written communication -- Problems, exercises, etc.
English language -- Written English -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Genre/Form Problems and exercises.
Author Carter, Ronald, 1947-
LC no. 00065292
ISBN 0415234646 cloth alkaline paper
0415234654 paperback alkaline paper