Phasal Analysis: Analysing Discourse through Communication Linguistics

Enables students of English language to learn about how language works and to describe numerous interesting features about both literary and non-literary discourse in a detailed and revealing way

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

"Karen Malcolm's Phasal Analysis provides an explicit how-to manual for linguistic discourse analysis, rich in worked examples, by a founder of one of its key methods and an important contributor to Communication Linguistics. An essential tool for analyzing verbal data in all fields."

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Offers a specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts, of any length, in meaning and manageable ways. This book provides an approach to discourse analysis for both linguists and non-linguistics. If demonstrates how to compile, contextualize and communicate the intricacies of a language analysis.