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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300609803321

Autore

Liu Xinghua

Titolo

Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing [[electronic resource] ] : A Contrastive Perspective / / by Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-10-6415-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 141 p. 46 illus.)

Collana

Corpora and Intercultural Studies, , 2510-4802 ; ; 4

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Applied linguistics

Philology

Linguistics

Language and education

Applied Linguistics

Language and Literature

Language Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Contrastive Rhetoric -- Chapter 2 Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance -- Chapter 3 Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing.- Chapter 4 A Study of Attitude in Student Writing -- Chapter 5 Appraisal Analysis.- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications.- References.- Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students’ English texts, Chinese-speaking students’ Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students’ English writing.



Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics. .