Published in International Journal of Legal Discourse
In courtroom discourses, evaluative language serves a pivotal role in assessing witnesses for determining the credibility of the testimonies provided and consequently influencing the outcome of the trial. Adopting the appraisal framework, this paper conducted a case study to examine the attitude resources used by court participants in a Philippine ...
Syftet med studien är att belysa hur elever hanterar intern och extern röst i sina gymnasiearbeten för att ge en inblick i vilken diskursiv kompetens elever kan uppvisa i slutet av sin gymnasieutbildning. Tidigare studier visar att elever och studenter har svårt för att balansera den interna och de externa rösterna för att skapa dialog i texter. Ge...
Published in Text & Talk
Engagement can be used to describe and explain the various styles or strategies of intersubjective positioning that have been observed operating recurrently within different discourse domains. Based on the engagement system of appraisal framework, this study offers a contrastive analysis of dialogic contraction and dialogic expansion between Englis...
This article presents results from research which analyzed the gender gap on the standardized test, Simce, for Math and Reading from 2006 to 2014, among 4th, 8th and 12th grade students, from the region of Araucanía, Chile. The data show that in math, the gender gap tends to decrease, while in language it continues to increase. Additionally, the sc...
This article examines the historical and discursive mechanisms to construct evidentiality as part of the historical explanations used by History majors in written texts. The corpus of the research is composed of 16 written answers obtained from the reading tests taken by first to third year history majors from three different courses of History of ...
Den här undersökningen handlar om hur flickor respektive pojkar i en årskurs fem använder värderande uttryck i sina narrativa texter. 22 elevtexter, 11 skrivna av flickor och 11 skrivna av pojkar, har analyserats enligt Appraisal framework. Jag har undersökt hur många och vilka typer av värderande uttryck eleverna använder och även hur de har förde...
