How to do critical discourse analysis: a multimodal introduction

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 action: transitivity and verb processes

Concealing and taking for granted: nominalisation and presupposition

Persuading with abstraction: rhetoric and metaphor

Committing and evading: modality and hedging

Conclusion: doing critical discourse analysis and its discontents.