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The expression of evaluation in weekly news magazines in English
Abstract
This chapter investigates the expression of evaluation in a corpus collected from weekly news magazines in English in an attempt to address two main research questions. I investigate, first, the linguistic patterns regularly associated with the expression of evaluation in this written register and, second, the place of evaluative expressions in this discourse type and the implications for the organization of the text. The analysis has identified five main patterns associated with evaluation: copular constructions, cleft constructions, lexical means, markers of modality and other devices, such as conditional or comparative clauses in contexts of evaluation. For the second question, evaluation has been found to concentrate in some texts either at the end or at a point where it reflects the views of a third party in the story. However, there is insufficient evidence to claim that in news magazines evaluation tends to occur at boundary points in the text.
Abstract
This chapter investigates the expression of evaluation in a corpus collected from weekly news magazines in English in an attempt to address two main research questions. I investigate, first, the linguistic patterns regularly associated with the expression of evaluation in this written register and, second, the place of evaluative expressions in this discourse type and the implications for the organization of the text. The analysis has identified five main patterns associated with evaluation: copular constructions, cleft constructions, lexical means, markers of modality and other devices, such as conditional or comparative clauses in contexts of evaluation. For the second question, evaluation has been found to concentrate in some texts either at the end or at a point where it reflects the views of a third party in the story. However, there is insufficient evidence to claim that in news magazines evaluation tends to occur at boundary points in the text.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Preface xi
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Section 1: Introduction
- The many faces and phases of evaluation 3
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Section 2: Theoretical considerations and approaches to evaluation
- The emergence of axiology as a key parameter in modern linguistics 27
- AFFECT and emotion, target-value mismatches, and Russian dolls 47
- Appraising Appraisal 67
- The evaluative palette of verbal irony 93
- The implementation of the axiological parameter in a verbal subontology for natural language processing 117
- The evaluative function of situation-bound utterances in intercultural interaction 137
- Prosody, information structure and evaluation 153
- The evaluation of intonation: pitch range differences in English and in Spanish 179
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Section 3: Evaluation in different contexts
- “An astonishing season of destiny!” Evaluation in blurbs used for advertising TV series 197
- Graduation within the scope of Attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and movies 221
- Register diversification in evaluative language: the case of scientific writing 241
- The role of negative-modal synergies in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species 259
- Exploring academic argumentation in course-related blogs through ENGAGEMENT 281
- Multimodal analysis of controversy in the media 303
- The expression of evaluation in weekly news magazines in English 321
- Evaluative phraseological choice and speaker party/gender 345
- Evaluation in emotion narratives 367
- Evaluative discourse and politeness in university students' communication through social networking sites 387
- Index 413
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Preface xi
-
Section 1: Introduction
- The many faces and phases of evaluation 3
-
Section 2: Theoretical considerations and approaches to evaluation
- The emergence of axiology as a key parameter in modern linguistics 27
- AFFECT and emotion, target-value mismatches, and Russian dolls 47
- Appraising Appraisal 67
- The evaluative palette of verbal irony 93
- The implementation of the axiological parameter in a verbal subontology for natural language processing 117
- The evaluative function of situation-bound utterances in intercultural interaction 137
- Prosody, information structure and evaluation 153
- The evaluation of intonation: pitch range differences in English and in Spanish 179
-
Section 3: Evaluation in different contexts
- “An astonishing season of destiny!” Evaluation in blurbs used for advertising TV series 197
- Graduation within the scope of Attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and movies 221
- Register diversification in evaluative language: the case of scientific writing 241
- The role of negative-modal synergies in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species 259
- Exploring academic argumentation in course-related blogs through ENGAGEMENT 281
- Multimodal analysis of controversy in the media 303
- The expression of evaluation in weekly news magazines in English 321
- Evaluative phraseological choice and speaker party/gender 345
- Evaluation in emotion narratives 367
- Evaluative discourse and politeness in university students' communication through social networking sites 387
- Index 413
