How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis

A Multimodal Introduction
Second Edition
How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis
February 2023 | 360 pages | Sage UK
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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.

Contents

Introduction: shaping the world through language

Introduction: shaping the world through language

Making active choices: Language as a set of resources

Making active choices: Language as a set of resources

Analysing semiotic choices: Words and images

Analysing semiotic choices: Words and images

Presenting speech and speakers: Quoting verbs

Presenting speech and speakers: Quoting verbs

Representing people: Language and identity

Representing people: Language and identity

Representing action: Transitivity and verb processes

Representing action: Transitivity and verb processes

Concealing and taking for granted: Nominalisation and presupposition

Concealing and taking for granted: Nominalisation and presupposition

Persuading with abstraction: Rhetoric and metaphor

Persuading with abstraction: Rhetoric and metaphor

Committing and evading: Truth, modality and hedging

Committing and evading: Truth, modality and hedging

Conclusion: Doing critical discourse analysis and its limitations

Conclusion: Doing critical discourse analysis and its limitations

Description

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.

Contents

Introduction: shaping the world through language

Introduction: shaping the world through language

Making active choices: Language as a set of resources

Making active choices: Language as a set of resources

Analysing semiotic choices: Words and images

Analysing semiotic choices: Words and images

Presenting speech and speakers: Quoting verbs

Presenting speech and speakers: Quoting verbs

Representing people: Language and identity

Representing people: Language and identity

Representing action: Transitivity and verb processes

Representing action: Transitivity and verb processes

Concealing and taking for granted: Nominalisation and presupposition

Concealing and taking for granted: Nominalisation and presupposition

Persuading with abstraction: Rhetoric and metaphor

Persuading with abstraction: Rhetoric and metaphor

Committing and evading: Truth, modality and hedging

Committing and evading: Truth, modality and hedging

Conclusion: Doing critical discourse analysis and its limitations

Conclusion: Doing critical discourse analysis and its limitations

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How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis

A Multimodal Introduction


February 2023 | 360 pages | Sage UK

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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.


Table Of Contents:

  • Introduction: shaping the world through language
  • 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: Doing critical discourse analysis and its limitations

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