How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr.

By:

Machin, David, 1966-

Contributor(s):

Mayr, Andrea, 1972-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2012.Description: 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:

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

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

401.41 23

LOC classification:

P302 .M2946 2012

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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	401.41 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		3010039201