- ISBN:9781108442473
- Format:eBooks
- Subject(s):English Language
- Author(s):Ian Cushing
- Available from: February 2018
Essential study guides for the future linguist.
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Instruction in analysis techniques and research methodology, as well as examples of academic writing at an accessible level, give students models to follow for their own work.
Examples from the Cambridge English Corpus give students access to prestigious academic global English research, as well as insight into corpus linguistics and techniques for corpus creation and analysis.
Wider reading suggestions guide students towards broader topic exposure, encouraging them to research areas that interest them.
Longer research tasks encourage a greater depth of application and provide inspiration for non-examined assessment (NEA).
Written to support A Level and IB qualifications: in particular Cambridge International A Level English Language (9093) Paper 3 Text Analysis and Paper 4 Language Topics, AS & A Level English Language, AS & A Level English Language and Literature and IB English A.
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- 1. What is text analysis and representation?: 1.1. Big issues
- 1.2. Discourse
- 1.3. Context
- 1.4. Meaning
- 1.5. Register
- 1.6. What is a text?
- 1.7. Using metalanguage
- 1.8. Participants in discourse
- 1.9. Language as a system of meaning
- 1.10. Mode and genre
- 1.11. Purpose
- 1.12. Approaches to analysing texts
- 2. The structure of language: building words: 2.1. How language is organised
- 2.2. Phonetics and phonology
- 2.3. Grammar: building words
- 2.4. Categories of words
- 3. The structure of language: building sentences: 3.1. Distribution
- 3.2. Phrases
- 3.3. Clauses
- 3.4. Functions
- 3.5. Active and passive voice
- 3.6. Sentences
- 4. Creating meaning: 4.1. Negotiating meaning: semantics and pragmatics
- 4.2. Knowledge
- 4.3. Networks of words
- 4.4. Metaphor
- 4.5. Modality
- 4.6. Building and representing the world
- 5. Spoken language: 5.1. Working with spoken language
- 5.2. Speech acts
- 5.3. Narrative
- 5.4. Multi-speaker interaction
- 5.5. The social nature of speech
- Ideas and answers
- References.
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