How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction /
Machin, David, 1966-,
How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr. - 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
9780857028914 (hbk.) 085702891X (hbk.) 9780857028921 (pbk.) 0857028928 (pbk.)
2011936661
Critical discourse analysis.
401.41 / M.D.H
How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr. - 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
9780857028914 (hbk.) 085702891X (hbk.) 9780857028921 (pbk.) 0857028928 (pbk.)
2011936661
Critical discourse analysis.
401.41 / M.D.H