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