Evaluation and its discontents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Conflict and consensus 1
5. Subjective or objective evaluation? 17
6. Aspects of identification and position in intertextual reference in PhD theses 31
7. Authorial presence in academic genres 51
8. Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists 69
9. Evaluation and pragmatic markers 83
10. “This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though…” 97
11. Is evaluation structure-bound? 117
12. From corpus to register 133
13. On the boundaries between evaluation and metadiscourse 153
14. Language as a string of beads 163
15. Academic vocabulary in academic discourse 169
16. Evaluation and its discontents 185
17. Notes on contributors 205
18. Index 209