Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis (Blackwell… (udgave 2005)

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation andAnalysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory studentsthe skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skillsrather than merely introducing them to one particular version ofsyntactic theory. Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear andcompelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoreticalproposals. Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers,books, and television programs, to help students formulate and testhypotheses. Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specifictheoretical approaches but enables students to understand andevaluate different approaches more easily. Written by an established author with an internationalreputation.