Evaluation in Context

Thompson, Geoff, 1960- (Added Author). Alba-Juez, Laura. (Added Author).

Summary: This chapter explores evaluative discourse on social networking sites (henceforth SNSs), paying special attention to the role played by the expression of attitude and positive politeness in the management of interpersonal rapport. The corpus for the study consists of a random sample of 100 messages exchanged among university students in the United Kingdom and the United States on a particular site, i.e., Facebook, during the two-year period 2010-2012. Analysis is approached from the theories of appraisal (Martin and White 2005; Bednarek 2008) and politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987); and the m.

Record details

ISBN: 9027270724
ISBN: 9789027270726
Physical Description: 1 online resource (430 pages)
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Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	2. Information structure.
Formatted Contents Note:	3.4 Distribution of concepts from the core ontology in the axiologically-loaded dimensions4. Conclusions; Acknowledgement; Notes; References; 7. The evaluative function of situation-bound utterances in intercultural interaction; 1. Introduction; 2. Characteristics of Situation-Bound Utterances; 3. Do SBUs have evaluative functions?; 4. Role of context in processing SBUs in intercultural encounters; 4.1 Context and semantic analyzability; 4.2 Context-dependency; 4.3 Context and common ground; 5. Conclusion; References; 8. Prosody, information structure and evaluation; 1. Introduction.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.