Text, Context, Pretext

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"This book is beautifully written, clearly and cogentlyargued and illustrated with interesting and persuasive examples. Itis excellent for use with students, who would otherwise struggle ina field replete with difficult, if not tortuous, key texts."Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham "It is unusual in discourse analysis to find a book asthought-provoking or as wide-ranging as this. Any student ofpragmatics, discourse analysis (critical or otherwise), textlinguistics or corpus linguistics will need to consider carefullywhat Henry Widdowson has to say; his positions are too well arguedto be simply ignored." Michael Hoey, University of Liverpool "Text, Context, Pretext covers much ground in discourseanalysis ranging from its early precursors (e.g. B Malinowski, Z.Harris) to its contemporary practitioners. The notion of pretextprovides a new approach to the discussion of critical issues in(critical) discourse analysis." Journal of Sociolinguistics "The Volume, greatly ro its credit, raises the awareness ofvarious critical issues which need to be considered when embarkingon research in Critical Discourse Analysis." Discourse & Society