How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis
eBook - ePub

How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis

A Multimodal Introduction

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis

A Multimodal Introduction

About this book

Want to use Critical Discourse Analysis, but not sure where to start? This book is the complete toolkit you need.

Each chapter presents distinct concepts and ideas in Critical Discourse Analysis, explaining how to use them in your research – and why. Packed with case studies of news texts, social media content, memes, promotional videos, institutional documents, infographics and webpages, the book shows you how to apply each set of tools to real life examples.

Most importantly, examples, case studies, and revised opening chapters of this second edition show how multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis can help us to understand the role of language in the functioning of society and politics today, shaping our priorities for what to do and how to act.

This book is an inspiring and valuable resource for any undergraduate students and researchers who wish to understand and use Critical Discourse Analysis.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Author Affiliations
  7. Author Biographies
  8. 1 Introduction Shaping the world through language
  9. 2 Making active choices Language as a set of resources
  10. 3 Analysing semiotic choices Words and images
  11. 4 Presenting speech and speakers Quoting verbs
  12. 5 Representing people Language and identity
  13. 6 Representing action Transitivity and verb processes
  14. 7 Concealing and taking for granted Nominalisation and presupposition
  15. 8 Persuading with abstraction Rhetoric and metaphor
  16. 9 Committing and evading Truth, modality and hedging
  17. 10 Conclusion Multimodal critical discourse analysis and its discontents
  18. Glossary
  19. References
  20. Index