We present the SFU Opinion and Comments Corpus (SOCC), a collection of opinion articles
and the comments posted in response to the articles. The articles include all the opinion …

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 paper embarks on a functional analysis of impolite language use in discussions about
the response to the pandemic of Covid-19 on the official Facebook page of the Swedish …

This paper explores the language used by critics to appraise wine, at the same time
investigating the validity and usefulness of categories in the Appraisal framework, as set out …

Abstract Subsumed under Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) that emphasizes
functionality of language in social contexts, Appraisal is a recent theoretical framework that …

The use of corpora in semantic research is a rapidly developing method. However, the
range of quantitative techniques employed in the field can make it difficult for the non …

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 non-professional …

This special issue brings together five papers that take novel approaches to the intersection
of discourse analysis, corpus investigation techniques and evaluative language. In this …

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 …