Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis for Technical Communication Research

I propose Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) as an approach for understanding the discursive and material implications of technical documents in distant sites. I provide a historical vignette of MCDA and exemplify how technical and professional communication (TPC) researchers can critical...

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Published inTechnical communication quarterly Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 381 - 394
Main Author Agbozo, G. Edzordzi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Routledge 02.10.2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
archives
Archives & records
Critical discourse analysis
Crowdsourcing
Discourse Analysis
distant sites
Historical text analysis
methodology
Multimodal critical discourse analysis
Multimodality
social justice/ethics
Technical Writing
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ISSN1057-2252
1542-7625
DOI10.1080/10572252.2022.2144950

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Summary:I propose Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) as an approach for understanding the discursive and material implications of technical documents in distant sites. I provide a historical vignette of MCDA and exemplify how technical and professional communication (TPC) researchers can critically engage with distant sites through MCDA by analyzing materials about GhanaPostGPS, a geolocation technology. I conclude by discussing limitations of MCDA - access to archives - and propose the creation of crowdsourced technical documentation archives.
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ISSN:1057-2252
1542-7625
DOI:10.1080/10572252.2022.2144950