The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English / Edition 1

The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
140390409X
ISBN-13:
9781403904096
Pub. Date:
09/27/2007
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN-10:
140390409X
ISBN-13:
9781403904096
Pub. Date:
09/27/2007
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English / Edition 1

The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English / Edition 1

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Overview

This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this flexible tool, which has been applied to a wide variety of text and discourse analysis issues, is demonstrated throughout by sample text analyses from a range of registers, genres and fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403904096
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/27/2007
Edition description: 2005
Pages: 278
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

JAMES R. MARTIN is Professor of Linguistics (Personal Chair) at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics. Recent publications include Working with Discourse (with David Rose, 2003), Re/Reading the Past (edited with Ruth Wodak, 2003), Genre Relations (with David Rose, 2006), and Knowledge Structure ( edited with Fran Christie, 2007). Professor Martin was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998, and was awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003.

PETER R.R. WHITE is Lecturer in Linguistics and Media at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. His most recent publications include Appraisal - the Language of Evaluation and Stance' in The Handbook of Pragmatics. He maintains an email and discussion list on Appraisal theory at www.grammatics.com/appraisal. He is a former print, radio and television journalist and journalism trainer.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References Index
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