Andrew Goatly, Preet Hiradhar

Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age (eBook, ePUB)

An Introductory Coursebook

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is an essential introductory textbook which, by using many examples from the texts encountered in everyday life, enables students to discover the power relations involved when reading and writing texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317205807
• Artikelnr.: 44866643

Autorenporträt

Andrew Goatly has taught English Language and Linguistics in colleges and universities in the UK, Rwanda, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and is currently an Honorary Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of The Language of Metaphors (Routledge 1997).

Preet Hiradhar is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section A: Critical Linguistics--reading meanings off the textUnit 1. Genre
and the organisation of text
Unit 2 Text and conceptual meaning
Unit 3 text and interpersonal meaning
Section B: Critical Discourse: reading meanings into the textUnit 4
Interpreting discourse
Unit 5 Reading and writing positions
Unit 6 Intertextuality
Section C: The authority and power behind discourse and resisting itUnit 7
Ads, consumer capitalism and the crisis of inequality
Unit 8 News, institutional power and the crisis of democracy
Unit 9 Environmental discourse, poetry and the ecological crisis
Unit 10 The power of fiction and comedy