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Abstract:

Phasal Analysis introduces students to discourse and textual analysesthrough

Gregory and Malcolm's communication linguistics and its
descriptivemethodology: phasal analysis. Once readers have mastered five
preliminaryforms of analyses, the book teaches how to combine and correlate
yourfindings in order to capture the spontaneous and dynamic evolution of
thetext: how to compile, contextualize and communicate the intricacies
oflanguage analysis.

Students new to textual analysis will appreciate the clarity of thedefinitions and
explanations in the book and the on-line exercise andanswer key that goes with
each chapter and form of analysis. Advancedstudents of discourse analysis will
appreciate the suggestions forrecording, contextualizing, summarizing and
interpreting their findings.Phasal analysis has proven invaluable in several areas
of linguisticapplication: forensic linguistics, register and genre studies,
narrativeand discourse structure and stylistics. The framework can be used in
alltypes of textual and discourse analysis. It gives an in-depth understandingof
how language works and adjusts to reflect the constant fluctuations ofthe
interlocutors' relationships in the communicative situation and culture.

"Karen Malcolm's Phasal Analysis provides an explicit how-to manual

forlinguistic discourse analysis, rich in worked examples, by a founder of oneof
its key methods and an important contributor to CommunicationLinguistics. An
essential tool for analyzing verbal data in all fields."Professor Jay Lemke, School
of Education, University of Michigan, USA

This book offers an easily accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and
written texts, of any length, in meaning and manageable ways. "Phasal Analysis" is a book that
offers an approach to discourse analysis for both linguists and non-linguistics. If offers an easily
accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts, of any
length, in meaning and manageable ways. It demonstrates, in eight clearly structured chapters, how
to compile, contextualize and communicate the intricacies of a language analysis. Based around the
communication linguistics framework developed with Michael Gregory, Karen Malcolm's book
functions as an introduction to the description process that has come to be known as phasal
analysis. The process is a method of capturing the way meanings are made and communicated,
relationships are established and maintained and ideologies are supported and challenged.
Featuring a wealth of student exercises and sample texts, this book is firmly pedagogic. "Phasal
Analysis" reveals the innate structuring principles encoded in language, and will enable students
from a range of disciplines, from linguistics to language studies to creative writing, to communicate
on the message and purpose of the discourse under analysis.

"Karen Malcolm's Phasal Analysis provides an explicit how-to manual for linguistic discourse
analysis, rich in worked examples, by a founder of one of its key methods and an important
contributor to Communication Linguistics. An essential tool for analyzing verbal data in all fields."
(Professor Jay Lemke, School of Education, University of Michigan, USA)

"Karen Malcolm’s Phasal Analysis provides an explicit how-to manual for linguistic discourse
analysis, rich in worked examples, by a founder of one of its key methods and an important
contributor to Communication Linguistics. An essential tool for analyzing verbal data in all fields."
(Sanford Lakoff)

About the Author

Karen Malcolm is Co-Ordinator and Associate Professor of the Interdisciplinary Linguistics Program
at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.

This book offers an easily accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken
and written texts, of any length, in meaning and manageable ways. “Phasal Analysis” is a book
that offers an approach to discourse analysis for both linguists and non-linguistics. If offers an
easily accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts, of
any length, in meaning and manageable ways. It demonstrates, in eight clearly structured
chapters, how to compile, contextualize and communicate the intricacies of a language analysis.
Based around the communication linguistics framework developed with Michael Gregory, Karen
Malcolm’s book functions as an introduction to the description process that has come to be
known as phasal analysis. The process is a method of capturing the way meanings are made and
communicated, relationships are established and maintained and ideologies are supported and
challenged. Featuring a wealth of student exercises and sample texts, this book is firmly
pedagogic. “Phasal Analysis” reveals the innate structuring principles encoded in language, and
will enable students from a range of disciplines, from linguistics to language studies to creative
writing, to communicate on the message and purpose of the discourse under analysis.