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Machin, David, 1966-

How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr. - Los Angeles : SAGE, c2012. - 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.

ISBN: 9780857028921 (pbk.) 0857028928 (pbk.) 9780857028914 (hbk.) 085702891X (hbk.)

LCCN: 2011936661

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB1D4099 bnb

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Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015974074 Uk

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Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015974074 Uk

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LC Class. No.: P302 / .M2946 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 401.41