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- Title
'An Important Issue': A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Evaluation along the Parameter of Relevance in English and Spanish Newspaper Opinion Discourse.
- Authors
BLANCO, MARÍA PÉREZ
- Abstract
This paper approaches the expression of the evaluative parameter of relevance in English and Spanish journalistic opinion discourse. The case-study presented here analyzes adjectives of importance as lexical markers contributing to the construction of writer stance in a persuasive genre. The main aim of the study is to engage in a cross-linguistic analysis which identifies and compares the evaluated entities (Thetela, 1997) in English and Spanish opinion texts. Authorial evaluation along the parameter of relevance may be considered to surpass the idiosyncratic features of individual texts and reflect the underlying value system of the society that has produced those texts (Thompson & Hunston, 2000: 6). Corpus linguistics provides the methodological framework for a contrastive analysis focused on the primary function of evaluation, the expression of the writer's views, in this case, against a scale of importance.
- Subjects
SPANISH newspapers; HEADLINES; CORPORA; CRITICAL &; persuasive writing; LEXICAL grammar
- Publication
RaeL: Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada, 2016, Issue 15, p36
- ISSN
1885-9089
- Publication type
Article