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How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012.Description: 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780857028914 (hbk.)
  • 085702891X (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.41 MAC
Contents:
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
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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