Book of Donmon Teith

Functional approaches to the study of language may not only be used to characterize discourse structures, but also to assess their communicative quality. In fac

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has only recently become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents the first c

This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this fle

Papers presented at a conference held June 14-16, 2003, in Pontignano, Siena.

A crucial aspect of any discourse is what the writer or speaker thinks about his/her topic - in other words, how the writer or speaker evaluates the topic. Eval