Academic conflict by means of negative evaluation helps negotiate shared knowledge, but it is usually implicit to save speakers/writers' and hearers/readers' face. Thus the study of negative evaluation needs a systemic-discursive framework that takes into account contextdependent language options. In addition, this framework should explain and predict how implicit evaluation is inferentially achieved. However, current literature lacks a comprehensive approach that covers both aspects. Drawing from systemic-functional linguistics and pragmatics, in this article I aim at providing a systemic framework of negative evaluative lexical and grammatical resources organized in terms of discursive strategies. I qualitatively study negative critical acts in a diachronic (1939-1989) corpus comprising 90 Spanish academic book reviews of literary studies and linguistics. Results depict a system of eight necessary and usually co-ocurrent strategies that trigger negative evaluation: share, play, link, appraise, modalize, compare, quantify and regulate. This research provides an insight on the study of interpersonal meanings in academic discourse, although future studies should determine its analytical scope.
Navarro, F. (2013). Negative evaluative strategies and resources: towards a systemic-discursive framework. Boletín De Filología, 48(2), Pág. 69 – 96. Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/30237
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