On the Construction of Evaluative Meanings in English Tourist Discourse from the Perspective of Graduation System

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10.2991/icemit-15.2015.126How to use a DOI?

Keywords

tourist discourse, evaluative meanings, Graduation system, Appraisal Theory

Abstract

Set in the framework of Graduation system in Appraisal Theory, this article focuses on the employment of Graduation resources in English tourist discourse, aiming at finding how evaluative meanings are graded. The findings suggest that, of the two major sets in Graduation system, more resources for Force are employed than for Focus in tourism English. That is, English tourist discourse tend to scale the degree or amount of the evaluative meanings. Further study shows that, within Force, there are more Intensification resources than Quantification resources; whereas within Force, English tourist discourse tends to employ more sharpening than softening resources. Through revealing the features and ways of how Graduation resources are employed in tourist English, it is hoped that this study can help to effectively write as well as translate tourist discourse.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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