Salkie Raphael. Text and Discourse Analysis

Routledge, 1995. — xii, 115 pages. — (Language Workbooks). — ISBN: 0-203-13814-7.A practical, `user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis:
examines a wide variety of authentic texts including news stories, adverts, novels, official forms, instruction manuals and textbooks
contains numerous practical activities
looks at a range of cohesive devices
concludes by looking at larger patterns in texts, a set of further exercises and a guide for further reading
provides a hands-on guide to an area of growing importance in language studyLexical cohesion
Word repetition
Using synonyms
Superordinates and generals
Opposites and related words
Other kinds of cohesion
Substitutes
More substitutes
Ellipsis
Reference words
Connectives
Beyond cohesion
Larger patternsFurther exercises
Further reading