Title: Evaluation in text : authorial stance and the construction of discourse /
Authors: Hunston, Susan, 1953-; Thompson, Geoff, 1947-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: English language Discourse analysis
Abstract: "This is an accessible and wide-ranging account of current research in one of the most central aspects of discourse analysis: evaluation in and of written and spoken language." "The editors open the book by introducing the field and provide separate, contextual introductions to each chapter. They have also collated the references into one list, itself a valuable research guide. The exemplary perspectives and analyses presented by the authors will be of central interest to everyone concerned with the analysis of discourse, whether as students of language, literature, or communication. They also have much to offer students of politics and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 1. Evaluation: An Introduction / Geoff Thompson and Susan Hunston -- 2. Persuasive Rhetoric in Linguistics: A Stylistic Study of Some Features of the Language of Noam Chomsky / Michael Hoey -- 3. Corpus-Based Analysis of Evaluative Lexis / Joanna Channell -- 4. Adverbial Marking of Stance in Speech and Writing / Susan Conrad and Douglas Biber -- 5. A Local Grammar of Evaluation / Susan Hunston and John Sinclair -- 6. Evaluating Evaluation in Narrative / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin -- 7. Evaluation and Organization in Text: The Structuring Role of Evaluative Disjuncts / Geoff Thompson and Jianglin Zhou -- 8. Beyond Exchange: Appraisal Systems in English / J. R. Martin -- 9. Evaluation and the Planes of Discourse: Status and Value in Persuasive Texts / Susan Hunston.