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Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics, 13)

By Susan Hunston

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
ISBN
0415962021, 9780415962025
Open Library ID
OL10208913M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1657885 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
212\212
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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