Geoff Thompson

Laura Alba-Juez

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little – if any – discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the latest developments in the study of this phenomenon. Released more than a decade later than Hunston and Thompson’s (2000) Evaluation in Text, Evaluation in Context is designed as its sequel, in an attempt to continue, update and extend the different avenues of research opened by the earlier work. Both theoretical and empirical studies on the topic are presented, with the intention of scrutinizing as many of its dimensions as possible, by not only looking at evaluative texts, but also considering the aspects of the discursive context that affect the final evaluative meaning at both the production and reception stages of the evaluative act. The editors’ main objective has been to gather contributions which investigate the manifold faces and phases of evaluation by presenting a wide variety of perspectives that include different linguistic theories (e.g. Axiological Semantics, Functionalism or Politeness Theory), different levels of linguistic description (e.g. phonological, lexical or semantic), and different text types and contexts (e.g. the evaluation found in ironic discourse, the multimodality of media discourse or the world of politics, just to name a few). The volume can be of use not only for scholars who study the evaluative function of language, but also for students who wish to pursue research in the area.

Evaluation in Context

Mónica Aragonés González

Este libro es un curso de lengua inglesa correspondiente a la primea parte del nivel B1 (MECRL). Su objetivo principal es proporcionar a los estudiantes el material necesario para la comprensión, adquisición y aprendizaje de los principales aspectos, estrategias y funciones del lenguaje necesarios para alcanzar la competencia lingüìstica y comunicativa propia de dicho nivel. Si bien se ha diseñado para el grado en Estudios Ingleses, puede ser útil a cualquier persona cuyo objetivo sea alcanzar el nivel B1 del MCERL. Es recomendable para estudiantes cuya lengua materna es el español, ya que los ejercicios y material han sido diseñados pedagogicamente, teniendo en cuenta los problemas específicos de los hablantes hispanos.

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