TY - BOOK AU - Machin,David AU - AU - Mayr,Andrea AU - TI - How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis : A Multimodal Introduction SN - 9780857028914 (hbk.) U1 - 401.41 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - Critical discourse analysis KW - Diskursanalyse KW - Forschungsmethode KW - Inhaltsanalyse N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -