Long neglected as a focus of linguistic research, evaluation in its various guises is now being recognized as a crucial aspect of any study of discourse. In this book, writers coming from different standpoints are brought together, providing a unique profile of the topic from several perspectives: Systemic Linguistics, Narrative, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis.

• 1: Geoff Thompson and Susan Hunston: Evaluation: An introduction


• 2: Michael Hoey: Persuasive Rhetoric in Linguistics: A stylistic study of some features of the language of Noam Chomsky


• 3: Joanna Channell: Corpus-Based Analysis of Evaluative Lexis


• 4: Susan Conrad and Douglas Biber: Adverbial Marking of Stance in Speech and Writing


• 5: Susan Hunston and John Sinclair: A Local Grammar of Evaluation


• 6: Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin: Evaluating Evaluation in Narrative


• 7: Geoff Thompson and Jianglin Zhou: Evaluation and Organization in Text: The structuring role of evaluative disjuncts


• 8: J. R. Martin: Beyond Exchange: APPRAISAL systems in English


• 9: Susan Hunston: Evaluation and the Planes of Discourse: Status and value in persuasive texts

Susan Hunston is a senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham and author of numerous articles on Evaluation and on Corpus Grammar. She has taught EFL/ESL in the Philippines and in Britain, and has taught Applied Linguistics at the National University of Singapore (1983-90). She has also worked as a grammarian at Cobuild (1993-5).
Geoff Thompson is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool. He has previously taught English as a Foreign Language, Language Teaching Methodology, and Applied Linguistics at schools and universities in Germany, Algeria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, and China.