Access to Discourse in English through Text Analysis. A Preparatory Guide for Undergraduate Students.

This book explores different approaches to the investigation of discourse, particularly narrative and scientific discourse. Besides presenting approaches from different scholarly traditions, the book provides many examples of the way in which they can be applied to authentic contemporary texts, such as blogs, printed cartoons and TV stories for children, as well as more traditional ones, including recipes, fables, and research articles. The book is intended for both classroom and individual use. Each chapter contains an activity section which will help readers revise the chapter’s key topics through text analysis and which also suggests what project work might be undertaken.