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Machin, David, 1966-

How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012. - 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.

Introduction:
How meaning is created;
Making active choices: language as a set of resources;
Analysing semiotic choices: words and images;
Presenting speech and speakers: quoting verbs;
Representing people: language and identity;
Representing action: transitivity and verb processes;
Concealing and taking for granted: nominalisation and presupposition;
Persuading with abstraction: rhetoric and metaphor;
Committing and evading: modality and hedging;
Conclusion: doing critical discourse analysis and its discontents


ISBN: 9780857028914 (hbk.) 085702891X (hbk.) 9780857028921 (pbk.) 0857028928 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2011936661

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB1D4099 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015974074 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Critical discourse analysis.

LC Class. No.: P302 / .M2946 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 401.41 MAC