Acknowledgements
List of Texts
Part I: Foundations: researching texts
Part II: Drilling Down: how texts are structured
Section 1: Graphological and Phonological levels
Section 2: Lexical and Semantic level
Section 3: Grammatical level
Part III: Building Up: Texts and Contexts
A checklist for text analysis
Corpus resources and projects
References
Links
Further reading
Glossary and Index

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts - spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource which can be used in different ways across a range of courses and at different levels. Containing a wide range of real-life texts drawn from all over the world, full of hands-on activities for students, and accompanied by a companion website, this book is key reading for all students of English Language and Linguistics.

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the series co-editor of the Routledge Applied Linguistics, Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics and Routledge English Language Introductions series.

Angela Goddard is a Professor of English Language, a UK Higher Education National Teaching Fellow and Chair of Examiners for English Language A level at a national examination board. She has taught English across different sectors of education and at universities both in the UK and abroad. Her research interests include language and creativity, and the language of new technologies. She has written and edited many books and articles on English Language, including the Routledge Intertext series.