Evaluative Language and Evaluative Reality

2013 ◽  
pp. 161-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Eklund
Keyword(s):  
Evaluative Language

Expressivism and Crossed Disagreements

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Javier Osorio ◽  
Neftali Villanueva
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Semantic Account ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
Pragmatic Strategies

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to explore the connection between expressivism and disagreement. More in particular, the aim is to defend that one of the desiderata that can be derived from the study of disagreement, the explanation of ‘crossed disagreements’, can only be accommodated within a semantic theory that respects, at the meta-semantic level, certain expressivistic restrictions. We will compare contemporary dynamic expressivism with three different varieties of contextualist strategies to accommodate the specificities of evaluative language –indexical contextualism – truth-conditional pragmatics –, pragmatic strategies using implicatures, and presuppositional accounts. Our conclusion will be that certain assumptions of expressivism are necessary in order to provide a semantic account of evaluative uses of language that can allow us to detect and prevent crossed disagreements.

scholarly journals Evaluative language in physiotherapy practice: How does it contribute to the therapeutic relationship?

2015 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 128-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iréne Josephson ◽  
Robyn Woodward-Kron ◽  
Clare Delany ◽  
Amy Hiller
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Physiotherapy Practice ◽  
Evaluative Language

Positive evaluation in the language of human resources: textbooks versus reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
Pavel Reich
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Business English ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
General Business ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
Authentic Language ◽  
Positive Evaluation

Abstract The aim of the present paper is to focus on the language of Human Resources (HR) as one of the subfields of English for business purposes in respect of positive evaluation and stancetaking and to identify to what extent evaluative language common in real-life situations is reflected in currently available textbooks of English for HR (EHR). Authentic language is taken from blogs and interviews with prominent HR managers on www.thehrdirector.com, which is a global online magazine dedicated to HR professionals. The corpus created from these texts is analysed from the point of view of evaluative language and the data ascertained are put into contrast with the language presented in three commonly available HR English textbooks. The analysis focusses on the lexical level of language and is based on the Appraisal framework (and the system of Attitude) of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Even though the present study is intended as qualitative rather than quantitative, the findings are quantified in order to shed some light on the commonality and frequency of some of the phenomena ascertained and their reflection in the textbooks. The outcomes of the analysis might serve as food for thought and inspiration for tertiary-level teachers of general business English courses as well as highly specialised courses focusing on the language of human resources.

scholarly journals EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE IN BRITISH TOURIST DISCOURSE

10.23856/3915 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Olena Tyschenko ◽  
Martyna Krasucka
Keyword(s):  
Evaluative Language

scholarly journals EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE DISCOURSE OF CEBONG VS KAMPRET (‘TADPOLE VS MICROBATS’) ON TWITTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ahmad Fadly
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Social ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Using Data

As an interactive social media, Twitter gives significat role in creating social systems. Evaluative language was intensively used on the social media. The Cebong vs Kampret issue coloured on Twitter and polarized people. By using data Tweet and Reply from Twitter during 2019 this researcher investigates evaluative language. This research results that Twitter community were very emotionally force and defense on the Cebong vs Kampret issue, depicted from many evaluative languages classified into subsystem attitude. Subsystem graduation was also intensively used in accordance to that issue. It means that Twitter community emphasized on semantic scale in evaluating things and person.

Taking an authorial stance in English and Arabic research article discussions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-487
Author(s):  
Hmoud S. Alotaibi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Research Article ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Dialogic Space

Abstract Taking an authorial stance is essential in academic writing but remains a challenge for novice researchers, especially EFL/ESL writers. This study explores how authors of English and Arabic research article discussions employ evaluative language resources while commenting on their results. To this end, the study investigated the employment of Engagement resources within Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005). The findings exhibited a great divergence between the two language groups as Arabic discussions relied more on Contracting strategies, which indicate the tendency to close down the space for dialogic alternatives, while their English counterparts preferred Expanding resources, which open up the dialogic space for alternative voices. The study, therefore, bears some pedagogical implications for L2 learners.

Relativism and the Metaphysics of Value: A Comment on Daan Evers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispin Wright
Keyword(s):  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Theoretical Advantage

Abstract Daan Evers argues that relativists about aesthetic and other types of evaluative language face some distinctive and largely overlooked metaphysical difficulties concerning the nature of the states of affairs that such statements are intended to be about. These difficulties, as Evers notes, all rest on the assumption that evaluative language is representational. Evers takes it that it is only on this assumption that evaluative relativism is distinguished from expressivism. I argue that this is incorrect and that, without falling into some form of expressivism, relativists can and must drop the representational assumption, but that the resulting position is one in which relativism no longer offers any distinctive dialectical or theoretical advantage.

scholarly journals A stepwise method for annotating appraisal

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Fuoli
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Manual Annotation ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Stepwise Method ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Context Specific

Abstract Despite a growing awareness of methodological issues, the literature on appraisal has not so far provided adequate answers to some of the key challenges involved in reliably identifying and classifying evaluative language expressions. This article presents a stepwise method for the manual annotation of appraisal in text that is designed to optimize reliability, replicability and transparency. The procedure consists of seven steps, from the creation of a context-specific annotation manual to the statistical analysis of the quantitative data derived from the manually-performed annotations. By presenting this method, the article pursues the twofold purpose of (i) providing a practical tool that can facilitate more reliable, replicable and transparent analyses, and (ii) fostering a discussion of the best practices that should be observed when manually annotating appraisal.

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