Böcker i Pragmatics & Beyond New Series-serien

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little - if any - discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the developments in the study of this phenomenon.

As part of the "Pragmatics and Beyond" series, this text covers such topics as strategic vagueness in academic writing, academic writing in computer science, discourse competence, and writing in Czech and English.

How interpersonal relations are established and negotiated in online message boards by giving an overview of panoply of interpersonal relations, including positively and negatively marked behavior. This book provides refinement of theoretical positions of fields of research, students and professionals are (re-)acquainted with subject at hand.