· 2023· Review
How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction
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Short summary
This introduction provides a practical guide to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), focusing on how meaning is constructed through active semiotic choices in language and images.
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Key points
- CDA involves analyzing active semiotic choices in language and images to understand meaning construction.
- Key analytical areas include representing speech, identity, actions, and using rhetorical devices.
- Techniques like nominalization and presupposition reveal how information is concealed or taken for granted.
- The guide covers persuasion through metaphor and the use of modality and hedging to express commitment or evasion.
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Abstract
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 Actions: Transitivity and Verb Processes Concealing and Taking for Granted: Nominalization and Presupposition Persuading with Abstraction: Rhetoric and Metaphor Committing and Evading: Truth, Modality and Hedging Conclusion: Doing Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Discontents Glossary
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Field: Literature and Literary Theory
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