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Publication details [#48523]

Kong, Kenneth C.C. 2008. A filial son or a loving mother?: Evaluation as recontextualisation devices in property transaction reports. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 431–453.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper deals with the implicit realisations of evaluation, and its relation to readers' intertextual positioning. It is argued that one better situates the system underlying evaluation in a recontextualisation practice allowing for different frames to be invoked.