a multimodal introduction Machin, David 1966- creator Mayr, Andrea 1972- text bibliography cau Los Angeles SAGE 2012 monographic eng

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236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 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. David Machin and Andrea Mayr. Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index. Critical discourse analysis P302 .M2946 2012 401.41 MAH 9780857028914 (hbk.) 085702891X (hbk.) 9780857028921 (pbk.) 0857028928 (pbk.) 2011936661 UKMGB 110816 20161204180633.0 16920936