16.1874, Confs: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics/Augsburg, Germany

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Subject: 16.1874, Confs: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics/Augsburg, Germany

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Date: 15-Jun-2005
From: Monika Bednarek < Monika.Bednarek at phil.uni-augsburg.de >
Subject: Conference on Evaluation and Text Types

	
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:23:19
From: Monika Bednarek < Monika.Bednarek at phil.uni-augsburg.de >
Subject: Conference on Evaluation and Text Types


Conference on Evaluation and Text Types

Date: 22-Jul-2005 - 23-Jul-2005
Location: Augsburg, Germany
Contact: Monika Bednarek
Contact Email: Monika.Bednarek at phil.uni-augsburg.de
Meeting URL:
http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/anglistik/sprachwissenschaft/Conference_on_evaluation_and_text_types/


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Two-day conference on evaluation and text types at Augsburg University,
focusing on evaluation in the new media and cross-cultural aspects of
evaluation

The Department of (English) Linguistics at Augsburg University (Wolfram
Bublitz, Monika Bednarek) will host a 2-day conference on evaluation
and   text types, to be held from the 22nd to the 23rd of July 2005.

For the purposes of this conference evaluation is defined as

''the broad cover term for the expression of the speaker's or writer's
attitude or stance towards, viewpoint on, or feelings about the entities
or  propositions that he or she is talking about. That attitude may
relate to  certainty or obligation or desirability or any of a number of
other sets of  values.'' (Thompson & Hunston 2000: 5)

and overlaps with competing notions such as stance and appraisal.

Further details about the conference, including travel and accommodation
information, programme and abstracts are posted on the conference
website:
http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/anglistik/sprachwissenschaft/Conference_on_evaluation_and_text_types/

References
Thompson, G. & S. Hunston 2000. ''Evaluation: an introduction''. In:
Hunston,
S. & G. Thompson (eds). Evaluation in Text: Authorial Stance and the
Construction of Discourse. Oxford: OUP: 1-27.





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