The current study qualitatively examined blurbs in the discipline of physics which is perceived to be less infused with evaluative resources and more objective and impersonal in its textual argumentation. The study followed the appraisal framework proposed by Martin and White (2005) to see how interpersonal meaning is textually constructed in blurbs. Findings indicated that writers of the blurb...

This study examined academic articles and journalistic reports in 5 disciplinary areas to explore how similar contents might attitudinally be realized in two different genres. To this end, 25 research articles and 210 news reports were carefully selected and underwent detailed discourse semantic and grammatical analyses with the purpose of identifying the evaluative linguistic patterns....

Religious tolerance is crucial for bridging a good intercultural interaction among people from different religious backgrounds. In the context of teaching, critical and evaluative reading course one courses that can facilitate students to foster their tolerance. This research aims investigate implementation in building students’ Taking case at UIN Raden Mas Said, this descriptive collected data...

People differ in the size of their social network, and thus in the properties of the linguistic input they receive. This article examines whether differences in social network size influence individuals' linguistic skills in their native language, focusing on global comprehension of evaluative language. Study 1 exploits the natural variation in social network size and shows that individuals wit...

We present a quantitative analysis of evaluative language in a genre in which it is particularly prominent, that of movie reviews. The data chosen are nonprofessional consumer-generated reviews written in English, German and Spanish. The reviews are analyzed in terms of the categories of Attitude and Graduation within the Appraisal framework (Martin & White, 2005). The results show a clear infl...

introduction: one of the important evaluative indexes of language development is word finding ability. the application of formal assessment tools, such as twf-2, is the most common way of assessing this ability in western countries. there is not any formal assessment tool for assessment of this ability in iran. therefore this study aimed to determine the validity and reliability of persian vers...