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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. It offers a fresh approach to
exploring the ways in which evaluation or stance contributes to the
construction of the three newspaper genres, each with a distinct
communicative purpose. Key features include using a 900,000-word
comparable corpus of newspaper texts arranged by genre and topic
domain, drawing on a specially developed framework of analysis with
a strong orientation to news values, carrying out structural
analysis by creating sub-corpora of different parts of newspaper
texts and adopting a functional approach to evaluation in newspaper
discourse. Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres amply demonstrates
that evaluation plays a vital and yet dynamic role in the
construction of hard news stories, editorials and feature articles
by performing a great variety of discourse functions. In doing so,
the book also illuminates such important linguistic concepts as
specificity/variation and textual colligation. Providing a new and
unifying perspective on evaluation as a prime driver of text
construction, it will be of interest and use to researchers,
teachers and students of English language, applied linguistics and
journalism.
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