TY - BOOK AU - Machin,David AU - Mayr,Andrea TI - How to do critical discourse analysis: a multimodal introduction SN - 9780857028914 (hbk.) U1 - 401.41 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - Critical discourse analysis N1 - 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 ER -