An account of how meaning is expressed and interpreted in spoken andwritten texts. The book explains key concepts like context, co-textand schema and explores their relevance to an understanding of howtexts are constructed and interpreted. It discusses the relationshipbetween analysis and interpretation with particular reference to thework of critical discourse analysis, and looks at the contributionthat corpus linguistics has made to the analysis and interpretation of text. Name of series:Oxford Introductions to Language Study
