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Tables of Contents for Working With Texts
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Notes on authors
x
1
Acknowledgements
xi
2
Introduction
xiii
Unit One: Signs and sounds
1
70
Aim of this unit
1
1
Texts used
2
1
SIGNS
2
36
What is a sign?
2
7
As simple as ABC
9
2
From speech to writing
11
17
Space-shifting
28
9
Who's in the picture?
37
1
SOUNDS
38
33
A sound alphabet
39
2
Speech production and description: consonants
41
4
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it
45
3
Sound symbolism
48
7
Speech production and description: vowels
55
11
Answers to activities
66
5
Unit two: Words and things
71
54
Aim of this unit
71
2
Texts used
73
1
WHAT ARE WORDS MADE OF?
74
3
WORD AND MEANING
77
31
Lexical ambiguity: say what you mean, or mean what you say?
77
6
Metaphor: life's beach and then you fry
83
14
Idiomatic language: flogging dead crocodiles and keeping your feet under water
97
2
Denotation and connotation: what are words worth?
99
5
Linguistic determinism: words and viewpoints
104
4
HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS
108
17
Got any spare words?
108
9
Words mean what I want them to mean
117
3
Get your new words here! Creating new words
120
5
Unit three: Sentences and structures
125
40
Aim of this unit
125
1
Texts used
126
1
NOUNS AND PATTERNS
127
13
Pronouns and patterns
135
5
VERBS AND PATTERNS
140
9
Modals and modality
146
3
SENTENCES AND PATTERNS
149
8
TEXTS AND PATTERNS
157
8
Actives, passives and transitives
157
2
Comparisons
159
6
Unit four: Text and context: written discourse
165
82
Aim of this unit
165
3
Texts used
168
1
MAKE AND MEND
168
3
TRACING THE PATTERNS
171
58
Lexical cohesion
172
16
Grammatical cohesion
188
29
Information structure
217
12
THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
229
18
Answers to activities
245
2
Unit five: Text and context: spoken discourse
247
70
Aim of this unit
247
1
Texts used
248
1
SPEECH EVENTS
249
4
STORYTELLING
253
11
Spoken versus written
253
2
Labov's narrative categories
255
9
SPEECHES
264
11
The fireside chat speech
271
3
Some guidelines for the taping of spoken discourse
274
1
Some guidelines for the transcribing of spoken discourse
275
1
CONVERSATION: SOME GROUND RULES
275
5
The principle of agreement
275
3
The principle of politeness
278
1
The co-operative principle
279
1
CONVERSATION IN PRACTICE
280
11
THE REPRESENTATION OF TALK
291
26
Genderised talk: real and represented
292
13
The representation of region, social class and ethnicity
305
10
Answer to activity
315
2
Index of terms
317
8
Index of main texts
325
2
Further reading
327
4
References
331