How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis

A Multimodal Introduction

David Machin, Andrea Mayr

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Sage Publications Ltd
20 February 2023

Semantics; Communication studies

The previous edition did well in a busy market. Lifetime global sales are 6,000 and GBP107,000. The UK MAT an impressive 528.

It is used across the social sciences. The approach and accessible voice have been key to its longevity. It hasn't needed a quicker revision cycle - but it is now time to refresh.

The changes outlined below are clear and straightforward:

Structure and approach will not be altered. Updated examples. CDA has always been a field where ""classic"" examples are used widely, but it's time to retire a few for the digital age (i.e. New Labour, tabloids). More coverage of digital and social media texts throughout. CDA across the social sciences now needs the digital as central, rather than an additional chapter or approach. More grounding and clarity on multimodal scope. Multimodal approach isn't a change, but we can do more to frame and signpost engagement with image/sound. More discussion of mixing methods/approaches. More explicit help on using material in chapters for designing research projects and answering specific questions.

The authors are working on their own detailed plan based on them and will engage with all aspects as directed.

If we bring the content up to speed while keeping the approach and voice as it is, we can ensure a strong first year and protect that MAT.

800 copies will match the 1E. It's cautious, but there are more competitors across visual and multimodal analysis now. CDA does well for us. We know where and how it sells, and international growth could well help us beat 800. For now though, 800 feels solid and achievable and GBP32.99 brings us close to AA.

By: David Machin, Andrea Mayr
Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 170mm,
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781529772982
ISBN 10: 1529772982
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 20 February 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

David Machin is Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of Corpus and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University. He publishes in a range of academic fields applying multimodal critical discourse analysis to provide unique insights. His books include Introduction to Multimodal Analysis (2020), Doing Visual Analysis (2018), Visual Journalism (2015) and The Language of War Monuments 2013). He is coeditor of the journal Social Semiotics, which publishes researching which uses multimodal critical discourse analysis and is on the editorial board of a range of leading journals in the field. Andrea Mayr is currently Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Zayed University, UAE, where she works in the fields of Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodality, with a particular focus on crime and deviance, social exclusion and (digital) media activism. In her widely used books and peer-reviewed journal articles she applies mostly linguistic methods to the study of multimodal communication, such as in Language and Power (2019).