Evaluation in context
By: edited by Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, Laura Alba-Juez, UNED, Madrid
Series: Pragmatics & beyond new series -- Volume 242; Pragmatics & beyond -- 242.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9789027256478; 9789027270726
Subjects: English language; Discourse analysis
Description: It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little  if any  discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the latest developments in the study of this phenomenon. Released more than a decade later than Hunston and Thompsons (2000) Evaluation in Text, Evaluation in Context is designed as its sequel, in an attempt to continue, update and extend the different avenues of research opened by the earlier work. Both theoretical and empirical studies on the topic are presented, with the intention of scrutinizing as many of its dimensions as possible, by not only looking at evaluative texts, but also considering the aspects of the discursive context that affect the final evaluative meaning at both the production and reception stages of the evaluative act. The editors main objective has been to gather contributions which investigate the manifold faces and phases of evaluation by presenting a wide variety of perspectives that include different linguistic theories (e.g. Axiological Semantics, Functionalism or Politeness Theory), different levels of linguistic description (e.g. phonological, lexical or semantic), and different text types and contexts (e.g. the evaluation found in ironic discourse, the multimodality of media discourse or the world of politics, just to name a few). The volume can be of use not only for scholars who study the evaluative function of language, but also for students who wish to pursue research in the area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The many faces and phases of evaluation / Laura Alba-Juez and Geoff Thompson; title: The emergence of axiology as a key parameter in modern linguistics : a review of significant contributions from the 1950s to the 1980s / Ángel Felices-Lago; title: AFFECT and emotion, target-value mismatches, and Russian dolls : refining the APPRAISAL model / Geoff Thompson; title: Appraising appraisal / Mary Macken-Horarick and Anne Isaac; title: The evaluative palette of verbal irony / Laura Alba-Juez and Salvatore Attardo; title: The implementation of the axiological parameter in a verbal subontology for natural language processing / Ángel Felices-Lago and María Enriqueta Cortés-de-los-Ríos; title: The evaluative function of situation-bound utterances in intercultural interaction / Istvan Kecskes; title: Prosody, information structure and evaluation / Victoria Escandell-Vidal, Victoria Marrero Aguiar and Pilar Pérez Ocón; title: The evaluation of intonation : pitch range differences in English and in Spanish / Eva Estebas-Vilaplana; title: "An astonishing season of destiny!" Evaluation in blurbs used for advertising TV series / Monika Bednarek; title: Graduation within the scope of attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and movies / Marta Carretero and Maite Taboada; title: Register diversification in evaluative language : the case of scientific writing / Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb and Elke Teich; title: The role of negative-modal synergies in Charles Darwin's Origin of species / Laura Hidalgo-Downing; title: Exploring academic argumentation in course-related blogs through ENGAGEMENT / Marianna Ryshina-Pankova; title: Multimodal analysis of controversy in the media / Ruth Breeze; title: The expression of evaluation in weekly news magazines in English / Elena Martínez Caro; title: Evaluative phraseological choice and speaker party/gender : a corpus-assisted comparative study of 'register-idiosyncratic' meaning in Congressional debate / Donna R. Miller and Jane H. Johnson; title: Evaluation in emotion narratives / Manuela Romano; title: Evaluative discourse and politeness in university students' communication through social networking sites / Carmen Santamaría-García.