This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular viewpoint is correct, or in constructing knowledge from a different number of theories. This book argues that phraseology--regularities or patterns in language identifiable from corpus studies--is important to the study of evaluative language. It makes a number of more specific arguments: that modal meaning is expressed through particular phrases and not only through modal verbs; that figurative phrases are used to intensify evaluation; and that patterns of use may be exploited to achieve an automatic identification of evaluations. It also builds on the author s previous work in exploring how films and journalism use language and images to build knowledge from ideas. "
This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular viewpoint is correct, or in constructing knowledge from a different number of theories. This book argues that phraseology--regularities or patterns in language identifiable from corpus studies--is important to the study of evaluative language. It makes a number of more specific arguments: that modal meaning is expressed through particular phrases and not only through modal verbs; that figurative phrases are used to intensify evaluation; and that patterns of use may be exploited to achieve an automatic identification of evaluations. It also builds on the author s previous work in exploring how films and journalism use language and images to build knowledge from ideas. "
Imprint | Routledge |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Series | Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics |
Release date | October 2010 |
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First published | 2011 |
Authors | Susan Hunston |
Format | Electronic book text |
Pages | 212 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-136-90045-7 |
Barcode | 9781136900457 |
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LSN | 1-136-90045-4 |