Manual corpus annotation facilitates exhaustive and detailed corpus-based analyses of
evaluation that would not be possible with purely automatic techniques. However, manual …

This paper explores the language used by critics to appraise wine, at the same time
investigating the validity and usefulness of categories in the Appraisal framework, as set out …

Abstract Hommerberg, Charlotte (2011). Persuasiveness in the discourse of wine. The
rhetoric of Robert Parker, Linnaeus University Dissertations No 71/2011. ISBN: 978-91 …

Background The significance of metaphors for the experience of cancer has been the topic
of extensive previous research, with “Battle” and “Journey” metaphors standing out as key …

Living with a life-limiting cancer illness can entail a turmoil of feelings such as constant fear
of loss, suffering and dying. Because patients live longer with life-limiting illness, there is a …

This chapter analyzes the language resources that writers have at their disposal to describe
their experience of the web of sensory perceptions that are evoked in the wine tasting …

The clichéd conceptualization of cancer illness as a battle, which the patient can either win
or lose, can be problematic. For patients referred to palliative care, it can cause feelings of …

This study investigates the relationship between evidentiality, temporality and epistemic
control through detailed interpretive analysis of wine reviews written by Robert Parker …

Recent years have seen a rapid influx of reviews in the field of different aesthetic and
consumption domains, which is indicative of the importance assigned by present-day society …

This chapter uses the Appraisal category of Valuation to explore non-aesthetic appreciation
in the reviews. For this purpose, seven subcategories are developed inductively based on …