Critical reading and writing : an introductory coursebook / Andrew Goatly.
By: Goatly, Andrew
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, c2000Description: xiv, 348 p. : 26 cmISBN: 9780415195591; 0415195608 (pbk.); 0415195594Subject(s): English language -- Rhetoric | Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Criticism -- AuthorshipDDC classification: 808.0427 LOC classification: PE1479.C7 | G55 2000Online resources: WorldCat details | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-328) and index.
Table of contents Contents: Introduction ---
Part One. Critical linguistics: reading meanings from the text --
Chapter 2. Text and conceptual meaning --
Chapter 3. Text and interpersonal meaning --
Chapter 4. Two critical discourse: reading meanings into the text --
Introduction to Part Two --
Chapter 4. Interpreting discourse --
Chapter 5. Reading and writing positions --
Chapter 6. Intertextuality --
Part Three. The ideology behind the text --
Introduction to Part Three. Chapter 7. Advertising and consumerism --
Chapter 8. Fiction and feminism --
Chapter 9. News and institutional power --
Chapter 10. Nature, vocabulary and grammar.
Summary:
Critical Reading and Writing is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives. Using examples from numerous genres - such as popular fiction, advertisements and newspapers - this textbook examines the language choices a writer must make in structuring texts, representing the world and positioning the reader. Assuming no Read more...
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