Evaluation in Media Discourse Analysis of a

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has only recently become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents the first corpus-based account of evaluation, using a corpus of one hundred newspaper articles comprising a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media.

Dr Monika Bednarek is Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Reprint permissions	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Abbreviations and typographical conventions	p. xv
Evaluation and newspaper discourse
Analysing evaluation in the news	p. 3
The new story in its context	p. 11
Delimiting evaluation	p. 19
A new theory of evaluation	p. 41
Evaluation in the press: a corpus-based analysis
Evaluation in the press: core evaluative parameters	p. 67
Evaluation in the press: peripheral evaluative parameters	p. 125
Empirical and theoretical issues
Evaluation: broadsheets vs. tabloids	p. 189
Implications for a new theory of evaluation	p. 209
Appendices	p. 219
References	p. 235
Index	p. 251
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