In the paper the author argues that multimodal discourse analysis examines the traditional issues of rhetoric from a pragmatic-discursive perspective and therefore may be regarded as a part of rhetoric. Starting from systemic-functional linguistics, the author proposes a method for studying the multimodality of discourse which highlights the notion of strategy, defined as a plan for achieving a particular purpose.
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