REVIEW OF GEOFF THOMPSON AND LAURA ALBA-JUEZ (EDS.) 2014. EVALUATION IN CONTEXT (PRAGMATICS & BEYOND NEW SERIES, VOLUME 242), Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 418 pp.

Geoff Thompson and Laura Alba-Juez have put together an excellent volume in the study of evaluation in context, presenting some of the most recent developments in the field. As the authors state in the preface of the volume, the book is intended as a sequel to the seminal work in research on evaluative language, Susan Hunston’s and Geoff Thompson’s volume “Evaluation in text: Authorial stance and the construction of discourse” that laid the foundations of the field when it was published in 2000. Almost 15 years later, Thompson and Alba-Juez aim to take the field further by providing readers with a collection of papers by renowned academics that aim to provide new and fresh perspectives on research at the interface of text, context, and discourse. As such the book not only appeals to scholars and students of pragmatics and text analysis, but also bridges research on evaluative language informed by both multimodal approaches and a variety of perspectives on linguistic theories such as politeness, semantics, as well as functionalism.

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