Evaluative phraseological choice and speaker party/gender
A corpus-assisted comparative study of ‘register-idiosyncratic’ meaning in Congressional debate
This chapter continues investigation into register-idiosyncratic features of evaluation in parliamentary debate (Miller 2007; Miller and Johnson 2009, to appear), reporting findings regarding the phraseology it is * time to/for/that in a corpus of US congressional speech on the Iraq war. Quantitative data are tested for saliency against both general and political corpora. Qualitative analysis focuses on the enactment of APPRAISAL systems (Martin and White 2005). Methodology involves “shunting” (Halliday 2002 [1961]: 45), and a focus on “coupling” (Martin 2000: 163–164) which affords attitude (Martin and White 2005: 62 ff.; Miller and Johnson, to appear). The chapter examines how appraisers’ choices are affected by party/gender, recognizing that choice may transcend register boundaries due to both the ‘repertoire’ of the individual and his/her ideologically saturated ‘reservoir’ of culturally specific ways of meaning
(Martin 2010: 23).
References (61)
References
Aston, Guy and Burnard, Lou. 1998. The BNC Handbook. Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1981. “Discourse in the novel.” In The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist (ed), Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (trans.), 259–422. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bayley, Paul. 2007. “Terror in political discourse from the Cold War to the unipolar world.” In Discourse and Contemporary Social Change, Norman Fairclough, Giuseppina Cortese and Patrizia Ardizzone (eds), 49–71. Bern: Peter Lang.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bednarek, Monika. 2008. Emotion Talk across Corpora. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bednarek, Monika and Martin, James R. (eds). 2010. New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bevitori, Cinzia. 2007. “En gendering conflict? A corpus-assisted analysis of women MPs’ positioning on the war in Iraq.” In (Re)volutions in Evaluation, Marina Dossena and Andreas Jucker (eds), Textus XX (1): 137–158.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Bevitori, Cinzia. 2010. “Gendered discourses on war at the intersection between party affiliation and institutional role: The case of legislative Assemblies.” Invited speech at Gender and Language – BAAL Special Interest Group, Gender and Corpus Linguistics Event, University of Lancaster, 30 March 2010.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Biber, Douglas and Conrad, Susan. 1999. “Lexical bundles in conversation and academic prose.” In Out of Corpora, Hilde Hasselgard and Signe Oksefjell (eds), 181–190. Amsterdam: Rodopi.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Biber, Douglas, Johansson, Stig, Leech, Geoffrey, Conrad, Susan and Finegan, Edward. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Pearson![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Burnard, Lou and Todd, Tony. Xaira 1.25 (current release), Oxford: OUCS.
Cheng, Winnie. 2004. “// ♦ FRIENDS // (& LAdies and GENtlemen //: Some preliminary findings from a corpus of spoken public discourse in China.” In Applied Corpus Linguistics: A Multidimensional Perspective, Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton (eds), 35–52. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Coffin, Caroline and O’Halloran, Kieran. 2005. “Finding the global groove: Theorising and analysing dynamic reader positioning using appraisal, corpus and a concordance.” Critical Discourse Studies 2 (2): 143–163. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M.A.K. 1991. “Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar.” In English Corpus Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Jan Svartvik, Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg (eds), 30–43. London and New York: Longman.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M.A.K. 2002 [1961]. “Categories of the theory of grammar.” In On Grammar, Vol. 1 in The collected works of M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (ed), 37–94. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday M.A.K. 2002 [1984]). “On the ineffability of grammatical categories.” In On Grammar, Vol. 1 in The collected works of M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (ed), 291–322. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M.A.K. 2002 [1985]. “Dimensions of discourse analysis: Grammar.” In On Grammar, Vol. 1 in The collected works of M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (ed), 261–286. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M.A.K. 2002 [1996]. “On grammar and grammatics.” In
On Grammar
, Vol. 1 in The collected works of M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (ed), 384–417. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M.A.K. 2007 [1960]. “Linguistics and its application to language teaching.” In
Language and Education
, Vol. 9 in The collected works of M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (ed), 135–173. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Halliday, M.A.K. and Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M. 2004. Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd edition). London: Arnold.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hasan, Ruqaiya. 1984. “Ways of saying: ways of meaning.” In Language as Social Semiotic, Vol. 1,
The Semiotics of Culture and Language, Robin P. Fawcett, M.A. K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai (eds), 105–162. London and Dover: Pinter.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hunston, Susan. 2004. “Counting the uncountable: Problems of identifying evaluation in a text and in a corpus.” In Corpora and Discourse, Alan Partington, John Morley and Louann Haarman (eds), 157–188. Bern: Peter Lang![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Hyland, Ken. 2008. “Academic clusters: text patterning in published and postgraduate writing.” International Journal of Applied Linguistics 18 (1): 41–62. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Knight, Naomi K. 2010. “Wrinkling complexity: Concepts of identity and affiliation in humour.” In New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Monika Bednarek and James R. Martin (eds), 35–58. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Knox, John S., Pattama Patpong and Yupaporn Piriyasilpa. 2010. “ Khao naa nung: A multimodal analysis of Thai-language newspaper front pages.” In New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Monika Bednarek and James R. Martin (eds), 80–110. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Lemke, Jay L. 1990. “Technical discourse and technocratic ideology.” In Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected Papers from the 8th AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Vol. II, M.A.K. Halliday, J. Gibbons and H. Nicholas (eds), 435–460. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Marín Arrese, Juana I. 2011. “Stancetaking, dialogicality and inter/subjectivity: An alternative proposal for the analysis of the multifunctionality of Engagement resources.” Paper delivered to Int-Eval – International Workshop on the Evaluative Function of Language: Evaluation Across Text Types And Cultures, at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, 6-8 October.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Martin, James R. 2000. “Beyond exchange: APPRAISAL systems in English.” In Evaluation in Text, Susan Hunston and Geoff Thompson (eds), 142–175. Oxford: Oxford University Press.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Martin, James R. 2010. “Semantic variation: Modelling realisation, instantiation and individuation in social semiosis.” In New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Monica Bednarek and James R. Martin (eds), 1–34. London and New York: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Martin, James R. and White, Peter R.R. 2005. The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M. 1993. “Register in the Round.” In Register Analysis: Theory and Practice, Mohsen Ghadessy (ed) , 221–291. London: Pinter.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. 1996. “ Ratio v. oratio, A critical excursion into the rhetoric of anti-rhetoric.” In Il discorso persuasivo, Quaderni Linguistici del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Trieste, n. 1, Donna R. Miller and Nicoletta Vasta (eds), 75–110. Padova: Cedam.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. 1999. “Meaning up for grabs: value-orientation patterns in British parliamentary debate on Europe.” In Language and Ideology: Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, vol. I, Jeff Verschueren (ed), 386–404. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. 2000. “On computing appraisal in a corpus of parliamentary debate, or, ticklish trawling.” Paper delivered to the Systemic Functional Linguistics European Conference and Workshop, Glasgow, 19-22 July.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. 2006. “From concordance to text: Appraising ‘giving’ in Alma Mater donation requests.” In System and Corpus: Exploring Connections, Geoff Thompson and Susan Hunston (eds), 248–268. London: Equinox.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. 2007. “Towards a typology of evaluation in parliamentary debate: From theory to practice – and back again.” In (Re)volutions in Evaluation, Marina Dossena and Andreas Jucker (eds), Textus XX (1): 159–180.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. and Johnson, Jane Helen. 2009. “Strict vs. nurturant parents? A corpus-assisted study of congressional positioning on the war in Iraq.” In Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict: Wording the War, John Morley and Paul Bayley (eds), 34 – 73. London: Routledge.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. and Johnson, Jane Helen. 2009. “Phraseological choice as ‘register-idiosyncratic’ evaluative meaning? A corpus-assisted comparative study of Congressional debate.” Paper delivered to the Corpus Linguistics Conference at The University of Liverpool, 21–23 July.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Miller, Donna R. and Johnson, Jane Helen (to appear). “Formulaic choice as ‘register-idiosyncratic’ evaluative meaning? A corpus-assisted comparative study of Congressional debate.” In ‘Choice': Critical Considerations in Systemic Functional Linguistics, Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett and Gerald O’Grady (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Morley, John and Bayley, Paul (eds). 2009. Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict: Wording the War. London: Routledge.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Murphy, Amanda. 2009. “Editorials and opinion articles in the CorDis corpus.” In Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict: Wording the War, John Morley and Paul Bayley (eds), 186–207. London: Routledge.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Page, Ruth E. 2003. “An analysis of APPRAISAL in childbirth narratives with special consideration of gender and storytelling style.” Text 23 (2): 211–237.![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Partington, Alan. 2004. “Corpora and discourse, a most congruous beast.” In Corpora and Discourse, Alan Partington, John Morley and Louann Haarman (eds), 11–20. Bern: Peter Lang.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Partington, Alan. 2008. “The armchair and the machine: Corpus-assisted discourse research.” In Corpora for University Language Teachers, Carol Taylor Torsello, Katherine Ackerley, Erik Castello (eds), 189–213. Bern: Peter Lang.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Partington, Alan and Morley, John. 2004. “At the heart of ideology: Word and cluster/bundle frequency in political debate.” In Practical Applications in Language and Computers, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed), 179–192. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Scott, Michael. 2008. WordSmith Tools version 5, Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Sinclair, John. 1996. “The search for units of meaning.” Textus 9 (1): 75–106.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Slembrouck, Stef. 1992. “The parliamentary Hansard ‘verbatim’ report: The written construction of spoken discourse.” Languages and Literature 1 (2): 101–119.![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Thompson, Geoff. 2001. “Corpus, comparison, culture: Doing the same things differently in different languages.” In The Use of Small Corpora in the Teaching of Language, Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds), 311–334. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Reprinted in Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Vol. 5, Wolfgang Teubert and Ramesh Krishnamurthy (eds), 68–87. 2007. London and New York: Routledge.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Thompson, Geoff. 2004. Introducing Functional Grammar (2
nd edition). London: Arnold.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Thompson, Geoff. 2008. “Review of Monika Bednarek, Emotion Talk across Corpora.” Linguistics and the Human Sciences 3 (3): 399–404.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Thompson, Geoff and Hunston, Susan (eds). 2006. System and Corpus: Exploring Connections. London: Equinox.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Tucker, Gordon. 2006. “Between lexis and grammar: Towards a systemic functional approach to phraseology.” In Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Ruqaiya Hasan and Jonathan J. Webster (eds), 953–977. London: Equinox.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
White, Peter R.R. 2003. “Beyond modality and hedging: A dialogic view of the language of intersubjective stance.” Text [special issue on Appraisal], 23 (2): 259–284.![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Zappavigna, Michele, Cléirigh, Chris, Dwyer, Paul and Martin, James R. 2010. “The coupling of gesture and phonology.” In New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Monika Bednarek and James R. Martin (eds), 219–236. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Zhao, Sumin. 2010. “Intersemiotic relations as logogenetic patterns: Towards the restoration of the time dimension in hypertext description.” In New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Monika Bednarek and James R. Martin (eds), 195–218. London: Continuum.![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
Cited by (1)
Cited by one other publication
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 24 july 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.