NLSUI OPAC header image

How to do critical discourse analysis :

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


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

2011936661

GBB1D4099 bnb

015974074 Uk


Critical discourse analysis.

P302 / .M2946 2012

401.41 MAC