Text Analysis

Text analysis is the study of a text to identify its purpose(s), structure, language resources, as well as its intended effect on the audience, and how that is achieved. Analysing texts shifts awareness from the intuitive to the conscious, requiring and developing a ‘metalanguage’ with which to describe the features listed above. Text analysis can focus at the level of whole text, stages within a text, paragraphs, sentences, and within sentences. Text analysis can include the analysis of images in multi-modal texts to identify purpose, effect and techniques.