Oordelen in taal. Semantische en pragmatische aspecten van evaluaties in narratieve communicatie.

In this study (the title of which can be paraphrased: Evaluative Language. Semantic and Pragmatic Features of Narrative Evaluations), we are concerned with an important domain of language use, viz. the expression of value judgements. Focusing on evaluative statements made in the course of stories told in the context of radio and television interviews in Dutch, we advance a theory about the expression in language of attitudes and emotions. The general nature of our research into evaluative language is a pragmatic one, but our analysis includes the propositional characteristics of evaluations as well as the rhetorical devices that speakers (of Dutch) employ to argue, or to suggest, the plausibility of their standpoint. ... Zie: Summar