Appraisal Patterns in Chinese EFL Argumentative Essays

Lv, Guoyan

doi:10.17507/tpls.0504.18

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“…The analyses of the present study are also in line with the studies by Liu and Thompson (2009), Liu (2013), Lv (2015), Ngongo (2017), andHemmati (2013), which revealed that in terms of the ATTITUDE subsystems, APPRECIATION was more frequently used by NN writers. It indicates that the NN writers also appreciate and evaluate things or phenomena as their certain topics in the research articles.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Employing the APPRAISAL theory resources of Martin and White (2005) and Martin (2000), Lv (2015) examined EFL students' argumentative essays regarding two aspects: what discriminates second language from first language authors' evaluative language in argumentative essays and how various essays topics initiate various evaluative patterns in second and first language essays. The study indicated that NN and N authors used similar APPRAISAL pattern to deal with various essay topics, however, N writers employed more negative evaluative expressions to express contradictory points.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Logogenetic Delve into Attitudinal Meanings in Native vs. Non-Native Discussion Section of Research Articles

Bahmani

Chalak

Tabrizi

2021

IJFLTR

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Using evaluative language has been considered as the significant predictor of academic writing success in second and foreign language research. Such an importance paved the way for the current study to investigate the use of the APPRAISAL tool, namely ATTITUDE resources, in the research articles (RAs) written by native (N) and non-native (NN) writers, focusing on the discussion sections. A qualitative corpus selection resulted in choosing 30 RAs written by American writers and 30 authored by Iranian writers. Two coding schemes were used: one for discussion boundaries based on Kanoksilapatham's (2005) discussion move structure, and the modified version of APPRAISAL theory (Xu, 2017) for identifying attitudinal resources. The corpus analysis revealed that academic writers preferred to use a great number of inscribed ATTITUDE resources, that is, APPRECIATION tools compared to JUDGMENT. There was also a significant difference between N and NN sub-corpora in using attitudinal resources, highlighting that the language of N RAs contained more authorial stance of ATTITUDE compared to NN subcorpus. However, the use of idioms as evoked ATTITUDE was found to be frequently applied by NN authors. The findings of the study contributed to the significance of using evaluative language in academic writing through which the writers can make a dialogic interaction with readers and enhance their critical stance by involving them in the argument.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Logogenetic Delve into Attitudinal Meanings in Native vs. Non-Native Discussion Section of Research Articles

Bahmani

Chalak

Tabrizi

2021

IJFLTR

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“…This makes it practically confusing when teaching Chinese as a second language to decide whether to emphasize (Kang, 2004; C. Lu & Wang, 2006; Lv, 1983; J. Zhou, 2010) or ignore (Ge, 2018; Z. Wu & Wang, 2009; Zhao, 2012) CCs.…”

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Semantic Overlaps Between Chinese Two-Character Words and Constituent Characters: A Normative Study

Xue,

Li,

Song

et al. 2023

Sage Open

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In written Chinese, the graphic units are Chinese characters (CCs). Most of the commonly used characters often join with others to form two-character words (2C-words) or words of more than two characters. Indeed, over 70% of the commonly used words are 2C-words. Since almost all characters are meaningful in their own right, there are semantic overlaps between 2C-words and their constituent characters. The present study investigated how normative semantic overlap of 2C-words and their constituent characters (SWC) might be influenced by whether the constituent characters are word or word-not characters (Wording) and by whether they are left or right characters (Positioning) and might be predicted by ordinary features of the constituent characters. The results confirmed earlier work that word-not characters are more strongly associated than word characters with 2C-words, and that right characters are more strongly than left characters associated with the 2C-words in semantics. The present study is also the first to provide evidence concerning the prediction of SWC by the norm features of the constituent characters. Skilled readers’ perception of the semantic features, frequency features and number-of-word features of the constituent characters may be mediated by Wording and Positioning in 2C-word semantic processing. However, they are not likely to perceive the visual features of the constituent characters. Rather, they seem to take the constituent characters of m-CCs as individual units, which should be highly familiar to them. In a semantic task on 2C-words, skilled readers may process the constituent characters in number of meanings, concreteness, imageability and emotion arousal, but not in sensory experience arousal. There appears to be a close association in valence between the 2C-words and the word characters, but not between the 2C-words and the word-not characters. These findings strongly support the theoretical argument that both words and characters should be taken as language units in Chinese. However, Wording and Positioning should be considered carefully when considering a CC as a language unit. These findings may be of more general significance for semantic understanding of compound words.

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A matter of facts: L2 writers’ use of evidence and evaluation in biographical essays

Myskow

Ono

2018

Journal of Second Language Writing

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Appraisal Patterns in Chinese EFL Argumentative Essays

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

A Logogenetic Delve into Attitudinal Meanings in Native vs. Non-Native Discussion Section of Research Articles

A Logogenetic Delve into Attitudinal Meanings in Native vs. Non-Native Discussion Section of Research Articles

Semantic Overlaps Between Chinese Two-Character Words and Constituent Characters: A Normative Study

A matter of facts: L2 writers’ use of evidence and evaluation in biographical essays

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