Beyond the Sentence Introducing discourse analysis

This introduction to discourse analysis examines the features and functions of different types of texts and shows how to incorporate them into language teaching. Scott Thornbury explains what makes spoken or written text coherent ant the ways that sentences are combined to make newspaper articles, conversations, speeches, novels and advertisements.
He shows how an understanding of discourse helps students to deal with the language needs of work, study and exams. The book includes examples photocopiable lessons to get you started.


Anul publicarii: 2009
Format: 19x24
Pagini: 192