Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative LanguageThis 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. |
Contents
Evaluative Language Phraseology and Corpus Linguistics 1 | |
Status in Written Texts and MultiModal Texts 25 | |
Evaluation Quantity and Meaning 50 | |
ModalLike Expressions 66 | |
Corpus Approaches to Investigating Status 92 | |
Grammar Patterns Local Grammars and Evaluation 119 | |
included here is the passive equivalent be Ved 124 | |
Phraseology Intensity and Density 151 | |
Conclusion 166 | |
Notes 183 | |
Percentages 74 | |
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Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language Susan Hunston Limited preview - 2010 |
Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language Susan Hunston No preview available - 2011 |