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[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
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Chapter 8
Evaluating news events

Using appraisal for reader response

 | University of Birmingham
Published online: 8 February 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.08van
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Reader response to news media
  • 3.Evaluative language analysis
    • 3.1Appreciation
    • 3.2Appraisal and news values
  • 4.Methodology
    • 4.1News texts collection
    • 4.2Interview collection
    • 4.3Analysis
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1Reader response through negative quality
      • Similarities in negative quality use
    • 5.2Differences in news event evaluations using negative quality
    • 5.3Summary of Results
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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