Author:
Alcaraz Ariza María Ángeles
Abstract
The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to identify the evaluative speech acts, either positive or negative, contained in a corpus of 30 English-written medical book reviews published in <em>The British Medical Journal</em> in the period 2000-2009; 2) to analyze the linguistic-rhetorical strategies used to convey this evaluation. Our main results illustrate that various mitigating strategies are used not only to soften criticism, but also to help maintain social harmony and solidarity with the reviewees. Moreover, negative evaluation is on many occasions voiced at aspects outside the book reviewed, which would mean that apart from showing their expertise in the field tackled, book reviewers also want to discuss certain issues of their concern and to put forward their cultural background.
Publisher
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Education,Cultural Studies
Cited by
9 articles.
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