Liu Xinghua, McCabe Anne. Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing: A Contrastive Perspective

English and Chinese Edition. — Springer, 2017. — 146 p. — (Corpora and Intercultural Studies). — ISBN10: 9811064148, ISBN13: 978-9811064142.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.
Inside...
Contrastive Rhetoric: Introduction and Origins, Criticisms of Early Contrastive Rhetoric, Expansion of Contrastive Rhetoric,
Research Considerations, Contrastive Chinese-English Studies of Voice and Critical Stance, SFL as a Useful Framework for Contrastive Rhetoric Research, Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing: A Contrastive Perspective.
Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance: Audience Interaction and Student Writing, Voice, Audience and Student Writing, Voice, Stance and Evaluation.
Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing: Evaluation in Interaction, The Appraisal Framework, Relevant Studies of Appraisal, Specific Enquiry of the Study.
A Study of attitude in Student Writing: Contrastive Rhetoric Research with an Expanded Framework and Improved Design, University Contexts for the Study, Written Data Collection, Attitudinal Analysis, Validity and Reliability of Appraisal Coding, Summary.
Appraisal Analysis: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison Between English Writing and Chinese Writing: EE and CC, A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between EE and CEE, A Within-Language Comparison Between CC and CEC, A Within-Subject Comparison Between CEE and CEC, Summary.
Conclusions and Implications.
Appendixes: Number of Chinese Characters and Words after Parsing in CEC and CC, Occurrences of Attitude Realisations in EE, Occurrences of Attitude Realisations in CC, Occurrences of Attitude Realisations in CEE, Occurrences of Attitude Realisations in CEC.