Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles

by Jonathan Ngai

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367713942
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/2024
Series:	Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonathan Ngai is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

List of tables. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. PART I: Defining, identifying and categorizing evaluation in discourse. 2. Evaluation as a driver of text construction. 3. Towards a new approach to evaluation. PART II: Delving into evaluation in newspaper discourse. 4. Evaluation in hard news stories. 5. Evaluation in editorials. 6. Evaluation in feature articles. 7. Epistemic evaluation in hard news stories, editorials and feature articles. PART III: Summing up. 8. Final considerations. Appendices. References. Index.