Abstract
Editorial is one of news genres aiming for opinion making and persuading. These functions determine that there are abundant evaluative resources in this genre. Exploring evaluative resources in the editorial could be conducive to understanding editorial text better and providing sensible suggestions for English learners to produce effectively persuasive writings. In view of this, the present study sets out to analyze the generic structure of the editorial Free money, then examine usage patterns of APPRAISAL resources in this text, and finally explore variations of APPRAISAL resources at different stages of the genre of this text. All APPRAISAL resources were coded based on APPRAISAL system and analyzed from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. It shows that Free money employed discussion genre with exposition and challenge embedded in the Background stage. An investigation into the usage of APPRAISAL resources found that negative ATTITUDE resources were mainly used to form the prosody of the text; more negation and concession resources within ENGAGEMENT were deployed to contract the dialogue; far more force raising GRADUATION resources were applied to amplify the evaluation. The APPRAISAL resources used at different stages of the editorial demonstrate distinct features with the aim of serving specific function of each stage. For instance, attribution resources were used in Issue stage to expand the dialogue and engage the readers; invoked resources were primarily employed in Background stage to make the statement objective; far more negative impressions in Side stage indicated the author’s concern, and more inscribed resources in Resolution stage manifested author’s attitude and made the conclusion impressive.
Highlights
Since the outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the international financial market has been in severe turmoil and the global economy at the risk of recession
Drawing upon Martinian Genre Theory (Martin and Rose, 2008) and APPRAISAL system (Martin and White, 2005), this study has analyzed the generic structure of the editorial—Free money, examines general patterns of usage of appraisal resources in this text and explores the variations of APPRAISAL resources at different stages of the genre
The major findings are followings: First, Free money employed discussion genre on the whole with exposition and challenge genres embedded in the Background stage
Summary
Since the outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the international financial market has been in severe turmoil and the global economy at the risk of recession. In terms of news genres, compared with news report and features, the communicative purpose of editorials is opinion making and persuading, namely remarking on significant events and indoctrinating the public with their viewpoints so as to influence the readers’ ideology and to have an impact on the readers’ social behavior so that the readers are persuaded to take actions to change the social facts (Zhao, 2014) These characteristics determine the abundant appraisal or evaluation resources in editorials. Previous studies have systematically analyzed the distribution patterns of APPRAISAL resources in English editorials, the variation of APPRAISAL resources at different stages of genre is still worthwhile to research. Major findings, implications, limitations and suggestions for future studies are concluded
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