Evaluation in media discourse

Manuel Casado-Velarde: Foreword - Ruth Breeze / Inés Olza: Introduction - Juana I. Marín-Arrese: Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in journalistic discourse: The Engagement system revisited - María de los Ángeles Gómez González: Concession in evaluative argumentative discourse: The semantics, pragmatics and discourse functions of but and although - Laura Alba-Juez: Evaluation in the headlines of tabloids and broadsheets: A comparative study - Paola Catenaccio: Negotiating futures in socio-technical controversies in the media: strategies of opinion orientation - Frank J. Harslem: The banality of evil. A study about translating «los desaparecidos» in the German and English press - Isabel Corona: «A life well lived of a lady well loved»: The power of appraisal in the comments section - Jasper Vandenberghe: The evaluative potential of colonial metaphor scenarios in (written) media representations of Spain's economic expansion. Spanish investors as forceful aggressors or audacious pioneers? - Jan Zienkowski: Re-articulating critical awareness about racism in public discourse: Changing one's mind on the Black Pete debates in the Netherlands - Notes on Contributors

Ruth Breeze and Inés Olza are researchers at the Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, University of Navarra, Spain. Ruth Breeze is Senior Lecturer in English and author of Corporate Discourse (2015). Inés Olza is author of Corporalidad y lenguaje. La fraseología somática metalingüística del español (Peter Lang, 2011), and is a full-time Research Fellow.