How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis
Machin, David, 1966-
How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis A Multimodal Introduction David Machin and Andrea Mayr - First ed. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012. - 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.
Introduction: how meaning is created
1. Making active choices: language as a set of resources
2. Analysing semiotic choices: words and images
3. Presenting speech and speakers: quoting verbs
4. Representing people: language and identity
5. Representing action: transitivity and verb processes
6. Concealing and taking for granted: Nominalisation and presupposition
7. Persuading with abstraction: rhetoric and metaphor
8. Committing and evading: modality and hedging
Conclusion: doing critical discourse analysis and its discontents.
Written for students without prior knowledge of linguistics, this is an accessible and systematic toolkit for doing language and image analysis. Using case studies and examples from a range of media, it enables students to analyse and understand the relationship between language, discourse and social practices.
9780857028914 (hbk.)
Critical discourse analysis.
Diskursanalyse
Forschungsmethode
Inhaltsanalyse
401.41 / MAC
How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis A Multimodal Introduction David Machin and Andrea Mayr - First ed. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012. - 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.
Introduction: how meaning is created
1. Making active choices: language as a set of resources
2. Analysing semiotic choices: words and images
3. Presenting speech and speakers: quoting verbs
4. Representing people: language and identity
5. Representing action: transitivity and verb processes
6. Concealing and taking for granted: Nominalisation and presupposition
7. Persuading with abstraction: rhetoric and metaphor
8. Committing and evading: modality and hedging
Conclusion: doing critical discourse analysis and its discontents.
Written for students without prior knowledge of linguistics, this is an accessible and systematic toolkit for doing language and image analysis. Using case studies and examples from a range of media, it enables students to analyse and understand the relationship between language, discourse and social practices.
9780857028914 (hbk.)
Critical discourse analysis.
Diskursanalyse
Forschungsmethode
Inhaltsanalyse
401.41 / MAC