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Chapter One Introduction

1.1 Research Background
With the explosion of knowledge and information and the development of mass medianowadays, plenty of new books are published every day in the world，which leads to thepopularity of the new genre—book review. According to Martin (2000)，genre is a stagedand goal oriented social process. In this way, the communicative goal of book review is toprovide basic information about the newly-published book and express the reviewer'spersonal viewpoint and comment on it. Book review is an important language activity andsocial practice, which covers different categories by different criterion, for example,academic book review, biographical book review, newspaper book review, linguistic bookreview and so on.As is known to all, the target of book review is ordinary people. However, fewordinary readers read the books under review out of a large quantity of new books.Therefore, it is important for the book reviewer to arouse readers' interest and providenecessary information for them. Therefore, plenty of appraisal resources are adopted in thistype of persuasive genre to attract putative readers. Book reviewers use these appraisalresources not only as a means to make personal comments on the books, but also asinterpersonal tools to form alliances with the putative readers. In this perspective, bookreviews are the result of social construction, that's to say, book reviews represent thecommunication and exchange between their authors and putative readers. Because bookreview plays an important role in conveying information and opinions to influence theviewpoints of ordinary people to read this book and plenty of appraisal resources are usedin this type of persuasive genre to attract putative readers, the study of book reviewdiscourse has been the interest and focus of linguists and scholars. At home and abroad,linguists study the linguistic book reviews, academic book review, newspaper book reviewand so on from the perspective of Appraisal Theory, including the pattern, distribution，realization and function of those appraisal resources, but they seldom study that of bookreviews on biography. So this thesis focuses on biographical book reviews from theperspective of Martin's Appraisal Theory.
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1.2 Objectives
Firstly, the main objective of this thesis is to identify the distinctive appraisal featuresof the genre of biographical book reviews, including the general frequency of the threeAppraisal values of Attitude, Engagement and Graduation and the proportion andcharacterization of each subcategory of Appraisal values in biographical book reviews. Inthis thesis，an attempt will be made to calculate the respective proportions of various typesof appraisal resources (both in general and in local).Secondly, in this thesis the characterization and communicational goal of appraisalresources across the generic structure of biographical book reviews are to be analyzed. Tobe more specific, the other objective of this thesis is to make clear how the variouscategories of appraisals are proportioned and organized to achieve the communicative goalof this specific genre through different linguistic devices，how the three Appraisal valuesand their subcategories work together to construct interaction between book reviewers aiidputative readers, and how the strategic arrangement of appraisal resour本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。