Chapter 1 Interpreting social discourse

1.0 An invitation

1.1 A framework for discussion

1.2 Genre

1.3 Language, power and ideology

1.4 How this book is organised

1.5 How to use this book

Chapter 2 APPRAISAL - negotiating attitudes

2.0 Negotiating attitudes

2.1 Kinds of attitudes

2.2 Amplifying attitudes

2.3 Sources of attitudes

2.4 Prosody and genre

2.5 More detail on kinds of attitude

Chapter 3 IDEATION - representing experience

3.0 Representing experience

3.1 Sequences of meanings

3.2 Doing - focusing on activities

3.3 Being - focusing on entities

3.4 Classifying and describing within elements

3.5 Ways of participating

3.6 Building up a picture - taxonomic relations

3.7 Types of taxonomic relations

3.8 Re-construing experience - ideational metaphor

Chapter 4 conjunction - connecting events

4.0 The logic of discourse

4.1 Four kinds of logic

4.3 Connecting arguments

4.4 Continuatives

4.5 Countering our expectations

4.6 Conjunction resources in full

4.7 Displaying connections - conjunction analysis

4.8 Logical metaphor

Chapter 5 IDENTIFICATION - tracking participants

5.0 Keeping track

5.1 Who's who? - identifying people

5.2 What's what? - identifying things

5.3 Where to look?

5.4 Tracking and genre

5.5 Identification systems in full

Chapter 6 PERIODICITY - information flow

6.0 Waves of information

6.1 Little waves - Themes and News

6.2 Bigger waves - hyperThemes and hyperNews

6.3 Tidal waves - macroThemes, macroNews, and beyond

6.4 How texts grow - hierarchies and series

6.5 Hard reading

6.6 A note on headings

6.7 Texture - phasing discourse systems

Chapter 7 NEGOTIATION

7.1 Interacting in dialogue

7.2 Exchanging roles - speech function

7.3 speech function and mood

7.4 Responding to

7.5 Sequencing moves - exchange structure

7.6 Interrupting exchanges - tracking and challenging

7.7 Extended exchanges - move and exchange complexes

7.8 Negotiation & beyond

Chapter 8 TACKLING A TEXT

8.1 Getting going

8.2 Outside-in

8.3 Inside-out

8.4 Inauguration day - from past to present

8.5 The Cost of Courage - from domination to freedom

8.6 The Meaning of Freedom - from self to community

8.7 Reprise

Chapter 9 CONNECTIONS

9.1 Context (register and genre)

9.2 Data

9.3 Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

9.4 Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA)

9.5 Voices

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