A Study of Appraisal in Chinese Academic Book Reviews

Wang, Dongmei; An, Xuehua

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“…discourses, conducts a deep research on the Graduational phenomena realized in the Attitudes resources, and summarizes a model for the Graduational Attitude. Tang Liping (Tang, 2004) studies rhetorical strategies and textual strategies towards academic reviews. Li Zhanzi (Li, 2004) summarizes the application of AS (appraisal system) in genres such as historical discourses, commercial discourses and investigation problems: interpersonal nature of attitudes, contextual elements in favor of distinguishing the Appraisal resources, division of ideational and interpersonal meaning, and the relationship between evaluation and genres.…”

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An Attitudinal Analysis of English Song Discourse from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory

2016

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Abstract-Appraisal theory is a new development of the interpersonal meaning in systematic functional linguistics. In recent years, the appraisal theory has been widely used in different genres to study whether and how slightly different appraisal methods are used in them. However, analysis of English song discourse with the appraisal theory is rare. Therefore, based on the attitude meaning in the appraisal theory the author analyzes several English song discourses. Through analysis of characteristics of the distribution of attitude resources in the English discourse it aims to find language feature in the English song discourse so as to make readers understand the emotion expressed by the author of the song discourse and the importance of the attitude meaning of the appraisal theory in building interpersonal relations between the author of the song discourse and readers.Index Terms-appraisal theory, attitude meaning, English song discourse, interpersonal relations

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An Attitudinal Analysis of English Song Discourse from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory

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“…Zuccala et al (2014) explored this idea further and introduced the concept of book reviews as megacitations. Other works in linguistics focused on the writing of BRs based on the language or nationality of the authors (Wang and An, 2013, Suárez and Moreno, 2008, Itakura and Tsui, 2011, Martin and White, 2005, Carvalho, 2002.…”

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Reciprocity in Book Reviewing among American, British and Canadian Academics

Sugimoto

2019

Can. J. Soc.

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Books and their reviews have been historically central to knowledge dissemination in the social sciences and humanities. Despite this perceive importance, few studies have assessed the relative importance of these document types in the dissemination of knowledge. This paper aims at better understanding the place of book reviews in the scholarly communication system and to shed light--through the analysis of books on Canada, United Kingdom and United States and their reviewers--on the international circulation of ideas in the social sciences and humanities. Based on 1,675,999 book reviews indexed in the Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index over the 1975-2016 period, our results show that book reviews are decreasing in importance in all disciplines—especially those where books have historically been peripheral. We also observe a high rate of homophily between reviewers and reviewed books, with researchers being primarily interested in the books that have been written by someone from their own country. Hence, despite the now widely held assumptions of the globalization of science, social science and humanities remains a highly localized activity.

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Book reviews in the history of knowledge

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Surman

2021

Stud. Hist. Sci.

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Academic reviewing, one of the communal academic practices, is a vital genre, in which epistemic virtues have been cultivated. In our article, we discuss reviews as a form of institutionalized critique, which historians could use to trace the changing epistemic virtues within humanities. We propose to use them analogously to Lorraine Daston’s and Peter Galison’s treatment of atlases in their seminal work Objectivity as a marker of changing epistemic virtues in natural sciences and medicine. Based on Aristotle’s virtue theory and its neo-Aristotelian interpretation in the second half of the 20th century, as well as on its most recent applications in the field of history and philosophy of science, we propose a general conceptual framework for analyzing reviews in their historical dimension. Besides, we contend that the analysis of reviews should be carried out taking into account their historical context of social, political, cultural and media-environment. Otherwise, one may risks presupposing the existence of an autonomous, disconnected community of scholars.

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A Study of Appraisal in Chinese Academic Book Reviews

Cited by 4 publications

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An Attitudinal Analysis of English Song Discourse from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory

An Attitudinal Analysis of English Song Discourse from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory

Reciprocity in Book Reviewing among American, British and Canadian Academics

Book reviews in the history of knowledge

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