作品简介
MuchoftheresearchdescribedinthisbookwasconductedduringmyPhDstudiesinDepartmentofLinguisticsandTranslation，CityUniversityofHongKong，from2012to2016.Firstandforemost，Iwouldliketoexpressmyverygreatappreciationtomysupervisor；Dr.AlexC.FANG，whoguidedandsupervisedthisresearch.Heinspiredmyinterestinthetopicdialogueactininteractivespeechandpromotedmeintoassessmentsbyalargedialoguecorpus，asdiscussedinthisbook.Assessmentisoneofthemostcrucialcommunicative，functionsforlanguageexpression.Ithasattractedwidescholarlyattentioninrecentexplorationoflanguageuse.Variousinvestigationsofassessmentsathomeandbroadbeganin1980s，diversifiedintermsofresearchperspectives，mainlyconcentratingonwritingtexts.Incontrast，however，ithasreceivedlittleattentiontoassessmentsinspokenlanguageandevenfewercorpus-basedinvestigationshavebeencamedout.Therefore，itleavesthisbookplentyofdiscussionspacesforassessmentsininteractivedialoguesbasedoncorpusdata.Also，IwouldliketooffermyspecialthankstoDr.CAOJingfromZhongnanUniversityofEconomicsandLaw，whoprovidedmanyvaluablesuggestionsandcommentsonanearlierdraft.Heremphasisoncorpusevidencehadanimportantinfluenceonmyresearch.ThisbookinvestigateshowassessmentsaredeployedindailyconversationsbyassessmentutterancesobservedinSwitchboardDialogueAct（SwDA）Corpus.Itaimstopresentafullpictureofassessmentutterancesbyempiricalevidence，whichcouldprovidelanguageknowledgeanddataforautomaticrecognitionofassessments.CreditmustalsogotoProfessorHarryBuntofTilburgCenterforCognitionandCommunication，TilburgUniversity，ProfessorLiu，MeichunandDr.SuenCaesarLunofDepartmentofLinguisticsandTranslation，CityUniversityofHongKong，fortheirkindnessandenlighteningcommentsinthefinalexam.本书为“语言服务书系·话语研究”之一种，为中国博士后科学基金资助项目和山东省社会科学规划研究项目的阶段性成果。本书以经过词性标注的SwitchboardDialogueActCorpus（简称SwDA）为数据基础，考察英语日常对话中评价功能的语言使用特点，在评价功能与其使用特点间建立对应关系。作者立足于英语对话语料库，对评价功能的词汇、句法结构特点进行全面、系统的考察，探索语言表达形式与交际功能的对应关系，具有一定的创新性和学术研究价值。