The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to identify the evaluative speech acts, either positive or negative, contained in a corpus of 30 English-written medical book reviews published in The British Medical Journal in the period 2000-2009; 2) to analyze the linguistic-rhetorical strategies used to convey this evaluation. Our main results illustrate that various mitigating strategies are used not only to soften criticism, but also to help maintain social harmony and solidarity with the reviewees. Moreover, negative evaluation is on many occasions voiced at aspects outside the book reviewed, which would mean that apart from showing their expertise in the field tackled, book reviewers also want to discuss certain issues of their concern and to pu...
Although nobody would deny that academic criticism is an inherent feature of academic communication,...
The chapter analyses a corpus of 112 book reviews published between 2010 and 2012 in the quarterly i...
Book reviews are important in offering guidance to prospective readers. What is expected from them i...
The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to identify the evaluative speech acts, either positive or nega...
The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to identify the evaluative speech acts, either positive or nega...
topic worthy of study”. However, expressing one’s opinion towards someone or something is not an eas...
This paper explores ways in which evaluation is achieved in academic book review articles in the fie...
Evaluative language features prominently in academic discourse, especially in book reviews. Previous...
Although nobody would deny that academic criticism is an inherent feature of academic communication,...
This paper was presented at the InterLAE Conference, organised by Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), D...
Drawing on a corpus-based approach, this paper explores the mitigation strategies used to soften cri...
Academic criticism can be highly fraught and face threatening, potentially wounding to the reviewed ...
A book review is a complex form of writing. Book reviews draw from diverse areas of knowledge to dis...
This paper documents some of the linguistic resources used to construct evaluation and argumentation...
Els estudis anteriors han omès la relació entre l'estructura i el llenguatge avaluatiu en les ressen...
Although nobody would deny that academic criticism is an inherent feature of academic communication,...
The chapter analyses a corpus of 112 book reviews published between 2010 and 2012 in the quarterly i...
Book reviews are important in offering guidance to prospective readers. What is expected from them i...
The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to identify the evaluative speech acts, either positive or nega...
The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to identify the evaluative speech acts, either positive or nega...
topic worthy of study”. However, expressing one’s opinion towards someone or something is not an eas...
This paper explores ways in which evaluation is achieved in academic book review articles in the fie...
Evaluative language features prominently in academic discourse, especially in book reviews. Previous...
Although nobody would deny that academic criticism is an inherent feature of academic communication,...
This paper was presented at the InterLAE Conference, organised by Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), D...
Drawing on a corpus-based approach, this paper explores the mitigation strategies used to soften cri...
Academic criticism can be highly fraught and face threatening, potentially wounding to the reviewed ...
A book review is a complex form of writing. Book reviews draw from diverse areas of knowledge to dis...
This paper documents some of the linguistic resources used to construct evaluation and argumentation...
Els estudis anteriors han omès la relació entre l'estructura i el llenguatge avaluatiu en les ressen...
Although nobody would deny that academic criticism is an inherent feature of academic communication,...
The chapter analyses a corpus of 112 book reviews published between 2010 and 2012 in the quarterly i...
Book reviews are important in offering guidance to prospective readers. What is expected from them i...