ABSTRACT
Although the original concerns of work in and around CDA were with ‘verbal’ or ‘textual’ forms of expression, calls for the inclusion of other communicative forms are now common. In their introduction to their extensive survey of CDA research, for example, Wodak and Meyer (2015: 2) explicitly signpost ‘non-verbal (semiotic, multimodal, visual) aspects of interaction and communication: gesture, images, film, the internet and multimedia’ as appropriate targets. In this chapter, we pursue this with respect to film, setting out some of the issues that such an extension involves. These issues concern not only the object and practice of CDA but also raise interesting questions of where (and if!) ‘boundaries’ between CDA and other forms of analysis can usefully be drawn.
