How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis A Multimodal Introduction David Machin and Andrea Mayr

By:

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012.Edition: First edDescription: 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780857028914 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

401.41 23 MAC

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Languages	Non-fiction	401.41 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		37265

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.