Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles

ISBN-13: 9780367713928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 230 str.

Jonathan Ngai

Opis

Evaluation across newspaper genres: Hard news stories, editorials and feature articles is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials and feature articles, the last of which is a Cinderella genre in linguistic studies.

Spis treści

List of tables Acknowledgements 1 Introduction PART I Defining, identifying and categorizing evaluation in discourse 2 Evaluation as a driver of text construction 3 Towards a new approach to evaluation PART II Delving into evaluation in newspaper discourse 4 Evaluation in hard news stories 5 Evaluation in editorials 6 Evaluation in feature articles 7 Epistemic evaluation in hard news stories, editorials and feature articles PART III Summing up 8 Final considerations Appendices 1. Evaluative items investigated in SCMP hard news stories 2. Evaluative items investigated in SCMP editorials 3. Evaluative items investigated in SCMP feature articles References Index

O autorze

Jonathan Ngai is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.