Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students English Writing: A Contra [Paperback]

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, Chinese-speaking students Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students English writing. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics.?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.Dr. Xinghua Liu received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, UK and completed his post-doctorate training in writing research at Arizona State University, USA. He has extensive teaching and research experience in second language writing and is a published researcher in this area.?