Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language

ISBN-13: 9780415962025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str.

Susan Hunston;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Applying a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse, this book reviews previous work in this area and discusses the limitations and the opportunities offered by the approach in question.

Recenzje

'... this book is an excellent presentation of Hunston's dedicated interest in evaluative texts and her continuing work on the interface of corpus linguistics and academic evaluation in the past decade. It will provde guidance for newcomers to this field, and also will be attractive to researchers already in the field because the studies presented in this book will provide them with useful suggestions for possible applications and further research. In sum, in this book readers may find that the combination of the three concepts will give them insight into how evaluative language works and new investigation directions.The book will be attractive to a large body of readers.' - Discourse Studies

Spis treści

1. Evaluative Language, Phraseology and Corpus Linguistics 2. Appraisal, Stance, Evaluation 3. Status in Written Texts and Multi-Modal Text 4. Evaluation, Quantity and Meaning 5. Modal-Like Expressions 6. Corpus Approaches to Investigating Status 7. Grammar Patterns, Local Grammars, and Evaluation 8. Phraseology, Intensity and Density 9. Conclusion

O autorze

Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Corpora in Applied Linguistics (2002), co-author with Gill Francis of Pattern Grammar: a corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English (1999), and co-editor with Geoff Thompson, of Evaluation in Text: authorial stance and the construction of discourse (2000) and System and Corpus: exploring connections (2006).