Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students' English Writing: A Contrastive Perspective (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Chapter 1 Contrastive Rhetoric 1.1 Introduction and Origins 1.2 Criticisms of Early Contrastive Rhetoric 1.3 Expansion of Contrastive Rhetoric 1.4 Research Considerations 1.5 Contrastive Chinese-English studies of voice and critical stance 1.6 SFL as a useful framework for contrastive rhetoric research 1.7 Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students' English Writing: A Contrastive Perspective Chapter 2 Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance 2.1 Audience Interaction and Student Writing 2.2 Voice, Audience and Student Writing 2.3 Voice, Stance and Evaluation Chapter 3 Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing 3.1 Evaluation in Interaction 3.2 The Appraisal Framework 3.3 Relevant studies on Appraisal 3.4 Specific enquiry of the study Chapter 4 A Study of Attitude in Stud ent Writing 4.1 Contrastive Rhetoric Research with an Expanded Framework and Improved Design 4.2 University Contexts for the Study 4.3 Written Data Collection 4.4 Attitudinal analysis 4.5 Summary Chapter 5 Appraisal Analysis 5.1 A cross-linguistic comparison between English writing and Chinese writing: EE and CC 5.2 A cross-cultural comparison between EE and CEE 5.3 A within-language comparison between CC and CEC 5.4 A within-subject comparison between CEE and CEC 5.5 Summary Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications References Appendices