Review of Widdowson's Text,Context,Pretext:Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis

Chapters 1-5 of Widdowson's Text,Context,Pretext:Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis presents discussions of text,discourse,context and pretext and Chapters 6-10 critical issues in discourse analysis.The proposed concept of pretext sheds light on discourse analysis and will lead to fresh thinking on communicative linguistic teaching and the furthering of pragmatics.