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“Hard to Beat Dickens’ Characters”: Non-Canonical Syntax in Evaluative Texts

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Abstract

The present paper focuses on non-canonical syntactic constructions in the language of evaluation. It explores in which ways and under which conditions certain syntactic constructions deviating from the unmarked SVX pattern can support the expression of the writer’s/speaker’s attitude. The study is based on a corpus of academic and non-academic book reviews (published online and in print in scientific journals of different disciplines and on the cataloguing website Goodreads respectively). It-extrapositions, existential there sentences, and wh-clefts contained in the corpus were analysed not only as to the evaluations expressed within them but also as to other parameters, including the occurrence of different forms of evaluation, the mention of specific sources or participating roles of evaluation as well as information structure.

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Published Online: 2017-9-2
Published in Print: 2017-9-26

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