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How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction /

by Machin, David; Mayr, Andrea.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012Description: 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780857028914 (hbk.); 085702891X (hbk.); 9780857028921 (pbk.); 0857028928 (pbk.).Subject(s): Critical discourse analysis
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 (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.

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