Evaluation in Text : Authorial Stance and the Construction of Discourse

Evaluation is expression in discourse of what a writer or speaker thinks and feels. It is often discussed under heading of stance or the interpersonal. In this book, writers coming from different standpoints are brought together, providing a profile of topic from several perspectives. These perpectives include: systemic linguistics; narrative; corpus linguistics; and discourse analysis. This book is intended for advanced level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in discourse analysis. More specifically, those studying and working on evaluation, stance, and attitudinal or interpersonal language.