Includes Tests and Key.
This textbook is intended as a guide through the first steps undertaken by university students and students of text in general.
The textbook is organized into three parts and their chapters. Each chapter in Part I starts with a theoretical section, then a second, practice, section offers exercises on actual texts. Where applicable, the tasks are clearly associated with either Halliday and Hasan's type of analysis demonstrated in Cohesion in English (1976), or with de Beaugrande and Dressler's type of analysis demonstrated in Introduction to Text Linguistics (1981). Part II offers exercises meant to further students' skills beyond the limits of Halliday and Hasan's, and de Beaugrande and Dressler's approaches. The final part of the textbook provides students with the opportunity to check their overall understanding of the material included. Three Tests (with Key) there cover the totality of the material discussed and practiced.
The format of the self-study tests follows the requirements for the Bachelor degree's State Exam taken by students at the Department of British and American Studies (part of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski).
Nelly Tincheva, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Department of British and American Studies at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. Her research and publications are primarily associated with Cognitive Sciences, Text Linguistics and Political Discourse. She has been lecturing in Text Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Political Discourse, and (Analytical) Grammar. Tincheva is the author of Language Gaffes, Political Speeches, Text structure: A window into discourse, context and mind, etc.
