Evaluation in Text
Subtitle: Authorial Stance and the Construction of Discourse (Oxford Linguistics)
Contributors: Susan Hunston (Editor); Geoffrey Thompson (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 20, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780198238546
First sentence: In this extract from a leaflet for a holiday package company (Simply Travel), one of the writer's central purposes is clearly to express his positive or negative opinion of the locations being described, and there are a number of expressions whose function is at least partly to carry out this purpose.