How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction

2023/01/01 by David Machín, Andrea Mayr · 15 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

paper · doi:10.4135/9781036212933

openalex publication_date 2023/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

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 Actions: Transitivity and Verb Processes Concealing and Taking for Granted: Nominalization and Presupposition Persuading with Abstraction: Rhetoric and Metaphor Committing and Evading: Truth, Modality and Hedging Conclusion: Doing Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Discontents Glossary

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