语篇中的评价性手段

摘要

This paper is an attempt to explore the ways the writer/speaker conveys his/her attitude to and judgment of the entities and events in the world. Evaluative meaning is the result of simultaneous functioning of all the systems. Thus, it is pointed out that the identification of evaluative meaning should be conducted on the stratum of lexicogrammar, and the various systems of evaluative devices in a text should be taken into account as well. Based upon an analysis of three texts, this papers argues that the a...