How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction /

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Machin, David, 1966-
Weitere Verfasser: Mayr, Andrea, 1972-
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2012.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.