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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, c2012.Description: 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780857028921 (pbk.)
  • 0857028928 (pbk.)
  • 9780857028914 (hbk.)
  • 085702891X (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.41 23
LOC classification:
  • P302 .M2946 2012
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.

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