How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction - Machin, David 1966-; Mayr, Andrea 1972- (Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012)
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 action: transitivity and verb processes -- Concealing and taking for granted: nominalisation and presupposition -- Persuading with abstraction: rhetoric and metaphor -- Committing and evading: modality and hedging -- Conclusion: doing critical discourse analysis and its discontents.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.
Keywords: Critical discourse analysis