Chapter 6
Wartime reports in Japanese newspapers
Transitivity and appraisal
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Context of culture, context of situation and genre: World War Ⅱ and the wartime press
- 2.1Wartime press censorship and the battle on Attu
- 2.2Genre and the context of situation
- 3.The Transitivity system and Appraisal analysis
- 3.1Transitivity system
- 3.2Pseudo-effective structures and nominalising metaphor
- 3.3Double participant functions in relational and mental processes
- 3.4Appraisal: interpersonal lexis or evaluative terms
- 4.Japanese wartime discourse
- 4.1Transitivity analysis
- 4.2Appraisal analysis
- 5.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Appendix
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Notes
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