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 …

Manual corpus annotation facilitates exhaustive and detailed corpus-based analyses of
evaluation that would not be possible with purely automatic techniques. However, manual …

This multiple case study investigated the application of the genre‐based approach (GBA) in
a second‐semester university‐level Arabic class. This article depicts the linguistic features …

This article addresses the methodological issues related to applying the appraisal
framework quantitatively with a corpus of institutional texts. The aim is to explore how to best …

This study examines the dialogic functions of expansion and contraction of first-person
epistemic and evidential Complement-Taking Predicate (CTP) constructions, such as I think …

This article offers an analysis of the Spanish derivative morphology potential for graduating
attitudinal meanings regarding the expression of political crisis and of contested meanings …

Abstract We apply the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to the lexical-
semantic analysis of English evaluational adjectives and compare the results with the …

This paper investigates the pragmatic expressions of negative evaluation (negativity) in two
corpora:(i) comments posted online in response to newspaper opinion articles; and (ii) …

Informational-persuasive discourse may be encoded in promotional strategies through
which a given product is described in a positive way to persuade potential customers. For …

Studies with English language learners have demonstrated that the genre-based approach
to writing informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL) provides teachers and students …