1. What is text analysis and representation?: 1.1. Big issues; 1.2. Discourse; 1.3. Context; 1.4. Meaning; 1.5. Register; 1.6. What is a text?; 1.7. Using metalanguage; 1.8. Participants in discourse; 1.9. Language as a system of meaning; 1.10. Mode and genre; 1.11. Purpose; 1.12. Approaches to analysing texts; 2. The structure of language: building words: 2.1. How language is organised; 2.2. Phonetics and phonology; 2.3. Grammar: building words; 2.4. Categories of words; 3. The structure of language: building sentences: 3.1. Distribution; 3.2. Phrases; 3.3. Clauses; 3.4. Functions; 3.5. Active and passive voice; 3.6. Sentences; 4. Creating meaning: 4.1. Negotiating meaning: semantics and pragmatics; 4.2. Knowledge; 4.3. Networks of words; 4.4. Metaphor; 4.5. Modality; 4.6. Building and representing the world; 5. Spoken language: 5.1. Working with spoken language; 5.2. Speech acts; 5.3. Narrative; 5.4. Multi-speaker interaction; 5.5. The social nature of speech; Ideas and answers; References.