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Reappraising Self and Others

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As Vološinov (Marxism and the philosophy of language. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1973) argues, “no utterance can be put together without value judgement. Every utterance is above all an evaluative orientation (emphasis in original)”. It is widely acknowledged that discourse conveys the speaker’s/writer’s attitudes and stance, and the way in which these evaluative orientations are represented certainly have influences on the relations among the participants involved in discourse, either positively or negatively.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The first letter of these sub-categories of Appraisal System is capitalised in the rest of the book to mark them as key terms.

  2. 2.

    See www.guancha.cn/politics/2014_03_05_211231.shtml?XGYD/ retrieved on June 1st, 2015.

  3. 3.

    We group China into the Self-category and all the other countries into the Other-category.

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Li, T., Hu, K. (2021). Introduction. In: Reappraising Self and Others. Corpora and Intercultural Studies, vol 6. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9488-5_1

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