English Text

English Text
Title English Text PDF eBook
Author J.R. Martin
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 636
Release 1992-11-18
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027274045

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis inspired by Halliday and Hasan's Cohesion in English. The analyses presented were developed within three main theoretical and applied contexts: (i) educational linguistics (especially genre-based literacy programmes) (ii) critical linguistics (as manifested in the development of social semiotics) and (iii) computational linguistics (in dialogue with the various text generation projects based on systemic approaches to grammar and discourse). English Text's major contribution is to outline one way in which a rich semantically oriented functional grammar can be systematically related to a theory of discourse semantics, including deconstruction of contextual issues (i.e. register, genre and ideology). The chapters have been organized with the needs of undergraduate students in theoretical linguistics and postgraduate students in applied linguistics in mind.

English Texts & Contexts 1

English Texts & Contexts 1
Title English Texts & Contexts 1 PDF eBook
Author F. Pollock
Publisher Pascal Press
Pages 294
Release 2003
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781741251029

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This book includes chapters dealing with the relationships between composers and responders, how to use technology to make texts, and how to effectively compose and respond to different types of text. There is a wide range of texts presented, including film, visual and electronic texts. Students will learn how to increase their understanding of language features, structures, the perspectives of composers and responders, and the way that context can affect a text.

Reading Old English Texts

Reading Old English Texts
Title Reading Old English Texts PDF eBook
Author Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 248
Release 1997-08-28
Genre History
ISBN 9780521469708

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Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.

Variety in Written English

Variety in Written English
Title Variety in Written English PDF eBook
Author Tony Bex
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 244
Release 1996
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780415108393

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Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book: - * looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry and literature * provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory * proposes a challenging new way of analysing genre which emphasises communicative function * unusually, considers the relevance of linguistic theories of genre to the study of literary texts. * includes numerous exercises and annotated bibliographies Variety in Written Discourse will be of interest to all students of language and communication. In addition, it will be an invaluable text for those interested in literature, as well as English for Specific Purposes.

Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts

Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts
Title Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts PDF eBook
Author Matti Peikola
Publisher Brepols Publishers
Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre Book design
ISBN 9782503574646

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The chapters in this volume investigate how visual and material features of early English books, documents, and other artefacts support - or potentially contradict - the linguistic features in communicating the message. In addition to investigating how such communication varies between different media and genres, our contributors propose novel methods for analysing these features, including new digital applications. They map the use of visual and material features - such as layout design or choice of script/typeface - against linguistic features - such as code-switching, lexical variation, or textual labels - to consider how these choices reflect the communicative purposes of the text, for example guiding readers to navigate the text in a certain way.

Exploring Grammar Through Texts

Exploring Grammar Through Texts
Title Exploring Grammar Through Texts PDF eBook
Author Cornelia Paraskevas
Publisher Routledge
Pages 199
Release 2020-10-19
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1000199924

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This textbook provides an innovative introduction to core areas of grammar: a systematic guide to the structure of English, arranged hierarchically from the word to the sentence to the paragraph level. Using a linguistic framework, activities and exercises, and diverse authentic texts, the book connects grammar knowledge to writing development, strengthening student understanding of language as a tool for text construction. Students of linguistics and English language will develop foundational knowledge about grammar and texts, as will writing students. Aligning with state curricular standards around the world, the book will be particularly useful for students of English Education.

Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts

Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts
Title Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts PDF eBook
Author A. Marotti
Publisher Springer
Pages 285
Release 1999-06-11
Genre Religion
ISBN 0230374883

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Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. They foreground some major literary authors and canonical texts, but also examine non-canonical literature as well as other writings that embody ideological fantasies connecting the political and religious discourses of the time with their literary manifestations.