Phasal Analysis: Analysing Discourse through Communication Linguistics

by Karen Malcolm

Overview

Offers an easily accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts, of any length, in meaning and manageable ways

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441165558
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Karen Malcolm is Co-Ordinator and Professor of the Interdisciplinary Linguistics Program at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She has taught in China in Harbin and Beijing.

Table of Contents

1. Communication Linguistics: a way of creating and analysing the discourse and linguistic patterns of texts / 2. Graphology: how visual meaning interacts with verbal meaning / 3. Phonology: how sounds make meaning in texts / 4. Lexis: how the meanings of words reinforce and undermine each other / 5. Syntax: what the arrangement of words in sentences and utterances reveals about the encoder and decoder / 6. Semology: semantic proposition and syntactic sequence meet in semology / 7. Rhetorical Strategies: description and narration are more than exercises in composition / 8. Phasal Analysis: how all forms of analyses combined reveal more than the sum of its parts / Bibliography / Index