Ways of Reading

Martin Montgomery is Director of the Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies; Nigel Fabb is Director of the Programme in Literary Linguistics; and Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in English Studies, all at the University of Strathclyde. Alan Durant is Professor  of Communication Studies at Middlesex University; and Sara Mills is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. The authors have written and edited numerous books on linguistics, communication studies, study skills, literary theory and cultural studies.

Section 1: Basic Techniques and Problem Solving  Unit 1: Asking Questions for Ways of Reading  Unit 2: Using Information Sources  Unit 3: Analysing Units of Structure  Unit 4: Recognising Genre  Section 2: Language Variation  Unit 5: Language and Time  Unit 6: Language and Place  Unit 7: Language and Context: Register  Unit 8: Language and Gender  Unit 9: Language and Society  Section 3: Attributing Meaning  Unit 10: Metaphor  Unit 11: Irony  Unit 12: Juxtaposition  Unit 13: Intertextuality and Allusion  Unit 14: Authorship and Intention  Unit 15: Positioning the Reader or Spectator  Section 4: Poetic Form  Unit 16: Rhyme and Sound Patterning  Unit 17: Verse, Metre and Rhythm  Unit 18: Parallelism  Unit 19: Deviation  Section 5: Narrative  Unit 20: Narrative  Unit 21: Narrative Point of View  Unit 22: Speech and Narration  Unit 23: Narrative Realism  Section 6: Media - from Text to Performance  Unit 24: Film and Prose Fiction  Unit 25: Ways of Reading Drama  Unit 26: Literature in Performance  Glossary