Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students' English Writing A Contrastive Perspective /

• Main Authors: Liu, Xinghua (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), McCabe, Anne (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Corpora and Intercultural Studies, 4
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Language and education.; Applied Linguistics.; Language and Literature.; Language Education.

This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students' English texts, Ch...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Contrastive Rhetoric
• Chapter 2 Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance
• Chapter 3 Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing.- Chapter 4 A Study of Attitude in Student Writing
• Chapter 5 Appraisal Analysis.- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications.- References.- Appendices.