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How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis : a Multimodal Introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015.Description: 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0857028928
  • 9780857028921
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 401.41 MAC
Contents:
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:Truth, Modality and Hedging; Conclusion.
Summary: How great to have this practical introduction to doing critical discourse analysis, especially one that provides examples of multimodal discourse analysis. Extremely useful for students who need tools for the study of text, talk and images.""--Teun van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University""The authors have truly achieved the impossible: to make extremely complex phenomena accessible for students and scholars alike. Thus, this textbook will provide a most helpful guide when looking for adequate ways to grasp and analyze the intricate interdependence of written, oral and visual forms of semiosis.
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Book - Borrowing Book - Borrowing Central Library Second Floor Baccah 401.41 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 25868 Available 000033141
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Reprint of the 2012 ed.

Glossary : p. 219-224.

Index : p. 232-236.

Bibliography : p. 225-231.

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:Truth, Modality and Hedging; Conclusion.

How great to have this practical introduction to doing critical discourse analysis, especially one that provides examples of multimodal discourse analysis. Extremely useful for students who need tools for the study of text, talk and images.""--Teun van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University""The authors have truly achieved the impossible: to make extremely complex phenomena accessible for students and scholars alike. Thus, this textbook will provide a most helpful guide when looking for adequate ways to grasp and analyze the intricate interdependence of written, oral and visual forms of semiosis.

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