[[FrontPage]] -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