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Semiotic Discourse Analysis

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Semiotics and Verbal Texts

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In this chapter, Gravells provides an overview of how written texts have been researched. Dividing her coverage between “tools” and “perspectives”, she reviews methodological tools such as corpus linguistics, content and narrative analysis and traditional grammar, and research perspectives such as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (PDA), and Potter and Wetherell’s Discourse Analysis. Turning to analysis in the social semiotic tradition, she posits that two typical analysis approaches—that which treats written text as analogous to graphics and Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG)—can be complemented by an alternative approach, that is, Semiotic Discourse Analysis.

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Gravells, J. (2017). Semiotic Discourse Analysis. In: Semiotics and Verbal Texts. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58750-3_2

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