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Research talk on "Attitude and engagement in film reviews"

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research talks
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Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00 - 15:00

Research talk on "Attitude and engagement in film reviews"

Who: Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool

When: 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Where: Room: Roger Stevens LT 04

http://www.teachingspace.leeds.ac.uk/room_details.asp?ID=1-01-086-2810-08-04

 

Abstract

Film reviews are clearly a text type centred around evaluation; and, as with all genres, the ways in which evaluation is realised reflect – and contribute to constructing – the conventions and assumptions of the socio-cultural context that they inhabit. In this presentation I will outline a currently influential approach to the analysis of evaluation, the appraisal model. I will then apply it to a small sample of online film reviews of the same films in different languages. The aim is to illustrate possible differences in the ways in which the different languages and cultures go about the socially-validated task of appraising films.