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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 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. TOC

Summary:
Written for students without prior knowledge of linguistics, this is an accessible and systematic toolkit for doing language and image analysis. Using case studies and examples from a range of media, Read more...




ISBN: 9780857028914 (hbk.) 085702891X (hbk.) 9780857028921 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2011936661

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Critical discourse analysis.

LC Class. No.: P302 / .M2946 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 401.41 / MAH 2012