Analysing collective identity in discourse: social actors and contexts

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1. Introduction: social actors and contextsThis chapter investigates how the two notions of social actors and contexts, both of which are central in critical discourse analysis (CDA), can be drawn on in the analysis of collective identity in discourse. The concept of social actors used here is indebted to van Leeuwen’s (1996) taxonomy of social actor representation, which is combined with a description of other linguistic features such as evaluation, process types and modality. The list of t...

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