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Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age - Andrew Goatly, Preet Hiradhar

Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age

An Introductory Coursebook
Buch | Softcover
334 Seiten
2016 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-84262-4 (ISBN)
CHF 73,30 inkl. MwSt
This is an essential introductory textbook which, by using many examples from the texts encountered in everyday life, enables students to discover the power relations involved when reading and writing texts.
Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives. Using examples from numerous genres – such as fiction, poetry, advertisements and newspapers – this textbook examines the language choices a writer must make in structuring texts, representing the world and positioning the reader. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age offers guidance on how to read texts critically and how to develop effective writing skills.

Extensively updated, key features of the second edition include:



a radically revised and repackaged section that highlights the theme of discourses of power and authority and the new possibilities for resisting them;
a revamped analysis of the art of communication which has changed due to the advent of new media including Facebook and Wikipedia;
fresh examples, exercises and case studies including fan fiction, articles from the BBC, Daily Mail and South China Morning Post, and a selection of international ads for a variety of products;
a brand new companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/goatly featuring projects, quizzes and activities for each chapter, a glossary and further reading.

Written by two experienced teachers, Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age is an ideal coursebook for students of English language.

Andrew Goatly has taught English Language and Linguistics in colleges and universities in the UK, Rwanda, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and is currently an Honorary Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of The Language of Metaphors (Routledge 1997). Preet Hiradhar is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Introduction
Section A: Critical Linguistics--reading meanings off the textUnit 1. Genre and the organisation of text
Unit 2 Text and conceptual meaning
Unit 3 text and interpersonal meaning
Section B: Critical Discourse: reading meanings into the textUnit 4 Interpreting discourse
Unit 5 Reading and writing positions
Unit 6 Intertextuality
Section C: The authority and power behind discourse and resisting itUnit 7 Ads, consumer capitalism and the crisis of inequality
Unit 8 News, institutional power and the crisis of democracy
Unit 9 Environmental discourse, poetry and the ecological crisis
Unit 10 The power of fiction and comedy

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 22 Tables, black and white; 34 Line drawings, black and white; 21 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 692 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-415-84262-X / 041584262X
ISBN-13 978-0-415-84262-4 / 9780415842624
Zustand Neuware
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