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• CL2011 Hunston on evaluative language

• Flovours
  • Extent
  • Reach
  • Depth
  • Strength

• Questions in evaluative language
  • stance-taking vs stance-objects

• Some questions:
  • language resources to express EL
  • How can evaluative meaning be modelled?
  • EM in different contexts

• Explicit vs implicit evaluative meaning
  • discourse methods: suggest
  • corpus methods: test

• Appraisal theory (Martin & White)
• the stance triangle (DuBois?)

• Functions
  • delaying solution
  • avoiding "so what"
  • closing discourse units
  • expressing personal opinion (the personal)
  • interpersonal alignment (the social)
  • discourse organization (the textual)

• Modal meaning

  	verb + wh-complement: very strong
  		"to find out that .../wh ..."
  			that: reaction to it
  			wh: aspiration to it / modal (obligation) volition (want to ...)/ possibility

• Modal meaning expressed with particular verb+complementation patterns

• Epistemic status
  • "at the ... that ...": at the conclusion/idea/notion/suggestion that ...
    • vague status noun?? (idea/notion/fact)
  • "for the ... that ...": for the fact/possiblity/probability that ..."

• Phraseology and status nouns
  • status nouns evaluate the epistemic status of a proposition

• Mitigation and intensification