How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction

• Main Authors: Machin, David, 1966- (Author), Mayr, Andrea, 1972- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012
• Subjects: diskurzivní analýza; lingvistika; sémiotika; mediální komunikace; discourse analysis; linguistics; semiotics; communication in mass media; učebnice; textbooks
• ISBN: 9780857028921; 978-0-85702-891-4
• Physical Description: 236 s. : il. ; 25 cm

Table of 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