Evaluation in media discourse

Catenaccio, Paola

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“…Evaluation is as a kind of cognitive activity, as in epistemological terms, any cognitive act expresses the attitude of the speaker to the object described, that is, contains an act of evaluation (Breeze & Olza, 2017;Martin & White, 2005). The evaluative moment is nothing but a person's mental operation held on the subject of utterance (perception, understanding, synthesis, conclusion, etc.…”

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Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspect of the Category of Evaluation

Prihodko¹,

Prykhodchenko²

2020

Polonia University Scientific Journal

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The paper is aimed at studying the category of evaluation, a very important and interesting phenomenon in linguistics. Evaluation of different world's fragments is, of course, a considerable part of human cognitive activity. Evaluation is realized by subject's consciousness in the perception and processing of information about the outside world and relates to internal (linguistic) world of man, reflecting his "view of the world." The essence of the category of evaluation is explained by the theory of value orientation of person's activity and consciousness, and the range of its characteristics embraces all that is given by the physical and mental nature of man, his being and feeling. Evaluation is as a kind of cognitive activity, as in epistemological terms, any cognitive act expresses the attitude of the speaker to the object described, that is, contains an act of evaluation. Evaluative interpretation of circumstances, subjects is one of the most important types of mental-speech activity in everyday life of an individual. The article proposes the communicative approach to the research of evaluative phenomena that exist in the reality and are reflected in language. The communicative aspect of the language means the existence of a unified structure of the linguistic units, bound by the connection of meaningful and formal sides. In this regard, the functioning of evaluative utterances acquires special significance, because the evaluation of various fragments of the world is one of the most important components of individual's cognitive activity. The evaluation should be studied comprehensively and profoundly as a category of high level abstraction as one of the categories given by the social, physical and mental nature of a person, which determines his relation to other individuals and objects of the surrounding reality.

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Section: The Essence Of the Category Of Evaluationmentioning

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Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspect of the Category of Evaluation

Prihodko¹,

Prykhodchenko²

2020

Polonia University Scientific Journal

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“…A number of investigations into the semantic and cognitive nature of evaluation were made by Arutyunova (1999), Bednarek (2009), Ishchenko (2010), Kosmeda (2000), Martin and White (2005), Prykhodko (2016), Vol'f (2006), Wang and Xu (2013), and Wright (1997). Some researchers studied the functional and pragmatic specificity of positive and negative types of evaluation (Arutyunova, 1999;Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014;Kosmeda, 2000;Krysanova, 1999;Prihodko, 2016;Shkitska, 2012;Vol'f, 2006;White, 2016) as well as the context of their realisation in different types of discourse (Breeze & Olza, 2017;Honcharova, 2002;Thompson & Alba-Juez, 2014). Honcharova (2002) and Vol′f (2006) suggested communicative evaluative models that included an addresser's aim, his/her tactics and their realisation, an addressee's response and a result of such an interaction.…”

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“…Honcharova (2002) and Vol′f (2006) suggested communicative evaluative models that included an addresser's aim, his/her tactics and their realisation, an addressee's response and a result of such an interaction. Most of the mentioned authors (Arutyunova, 1999;Breeze & Olza, 2017;Honcharova, 2002;Krysanova, 1999;Shkitska, 2012;Vol'f, 2006) highlighted the importance of an addresser's evaluative utterance. However, there is still a need for a closer look at the addressee's utterance that contains evaluation.…”

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Evaluative Responses in Modern English Fiction

Myroniuk

2017

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The process of communication implies information exchange, mutual influence, and evaluation of speakers. An addressee is an important participant of this process, yet little is known about him as a person who receives and evaluates an addresser's utterance. This is particularly significant because the addressee influences the further course of communication by his/her own responses due to the rules of turn taking. An evaluative response is thus an evaluative speech act that serves as the perlocutionary effect of an addresser's utterance and simultaneously expresses some intention concerning an interlocutor. The present paper aims to identify, classify and analyse the types of evaluative responses from a pragmatic perspective. The empirical material consists of 30 modern American and British novels, or 3400 dialogues containing evaluative responses. The theoretical basis of the investigation integrates the main principles of pragmalinguistics and speech act theory. In view of this, we suggested a pragmatic typology of evaluative responses based on an addressee's speech reaction to the received stimulus. The study claims the universality of an evaluative response as a speech act. It may provide not only emotional perception of reality but also contribute to its adequate comprehension and even exert direct or hidden influence on verbal and nonverbal actions of an interlocutor.

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“Not One of Our Experts.” Knowledge Claims and Group Affiliations in Online Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine

Breeze

2023

Digital Scientific Communication

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Evaluation in media discourse

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Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspect of the Category of Evaluation

Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspect of the Category of Evaluation

Evaluative Responses in Modern English Fiction

“Not One of Our Experts.” Knowledge Claims and Group Affiliations in Online Discussions of the COVID-19 Vaccine

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