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.
Most natural languages display an inventory of pronominal elements that obligatorily or optionally remain phonologically null in a few, in many or even in all syntactic surroundings. The authors of the papers compiled in this book analyse such null pronouns in a synchronic and diachronic way and recover the specific morphological and syntactic prerequisites for their origin and insertion.
Theorizing Bruce Lee: Film-Fantasy-Fighting-Philosophy
Theorizing Bruce Lee is a unique work, which uses cultural theory to analyse and assess Bruce Lee, and uses Bruce Lee to analyse and assess cultural theory. Lee is shown to be a major 'event' in both global film and global popular culture
This book starts from three observations. First, theuse of humour is a complex, puzzling, andidiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and henceis of scientific interest). Second, there is currentlyno theory of how humour works. Third, one useful steptowards a theory of humour is to analyse humorousitems in precise detail, in order to understand their mechanisms.
