How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Introduction

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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...

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• Research demonstrates significant advances in performance benchmarks
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