Implicit Evaluation of Ideational Meaning in News Discourse
Journal: Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS 2018)
Year: 2018

The study of news discourse evaluation focuses on the explicit attitude caused by attitude-invoking vocabulary. What lacks now is a discussion of implicit attitude that seems neutral but implies author's judgment. Attitude, engagement and graduation are the three subsystems of evaluation theory. They are inseparable from each other. This paper starts from the perspective of engagement and graduation, comprehensively identifies and analyzes the implicit attitude of ideational meaning in news disc