Machin, David

How to do critical discourse analysis: a multimodal introduction/ David Machin and Andrea Mayr - 2nd ed. - London: Sage, 2023. - 349p.

Introduction: shaping the world through language 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: Truth, modality and hedging Conclusion: Multimodal critical discourse analysis and its discontents

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Critical discourse analysis

401.41 / MAH