Gabrina Pounds
Biographic Data
| ID | 659327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabrina Pounds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Pounds |
| SIGNATURE | POUNDS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1773-3871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writer’s argumentative attitude
This article deals with those aspects of language that can be seen to carry out a primarily “interactional function” in that they are used to “establish and maintain social relationships” (Brown and Yule 1983: 2 and 3). Such aspects have been variously referred to as performing an “expressive” (Bühler 1934), “emotive” (Jakobson 1960), “social expressive” (Lyons 1977) or “interpersonal” (Halliday 1994) function or, more recently, as performing the…
Presupposed evaluation in environmental argumentative discourse
Expressions of evaluation in discourse have been studied from a number of different perspectives, all highlighting the fact that evaluation may be expressed cumulatively, through a combination of different linguistic means, and pragmatically, at various levels of implicitness, which often defy precise categorization. This paper argues that, in argumentative discourse, the pragmatics of evaluation includes not only implied but also presupposed asp…
The values of trees and woodland
Discourse analysis has been widely applied to the study of environmental communication, highlighting how language is used to reflect and affect our attitudes towards the natural world. The potential of discourse analysis to ‘reveal’ the values that people attribute to nature has recently been recognized in the context of environmental debates. This paper takes a new cross-disciplinary approach to the analysis of evaluation, combining a discourse …
Rapport-building in suspects’ police interviews
Both research and police guidelines acknowledge the value of rapport-building in police interview with suspects (ISs) and provide some insight into how ‘rapport’ may be defined and built in this context. Rapport is, however, difficult to operationalise and assess in practice, other than for the routine legal clarification offered to suspects at the beginning of the interview. This paper takes an original discourse-pragmatic and ethnographic appro…
Expression of empathy in a Facebook-based diabetes support group
Patient-Centred Communication in Ask-the-Expert Healthcare Websites
The study presented in this article explores to what extent and in what ways the communication between clinicians and patients on Ask-the-Expert healthcare websites is patient-centred. It further demonstrates the value of using a theory- and text-driven discourse analytical approach for the analysis of verbal communication in a (specific health) professional domain. The UK website Netdoctor is used as a case study. Thirty exchanges from this site…
Multimodal expression of authorial affect in a British television news programme
Analyzing the view from here, there and nowhere
'Foreignizing' or 'Domesticating' the Ideology of Parental Control in Translating Stories for Children
Translating for children is increasingly being recognized as a challenge worthy of as much attention as translating for adults. One of the key issues debated in this domain is the choice between ‘foreignizing’ and ‘domesticating’ strategies in relation to the pedagogic or, more generally, ideology forming or ideology-reflecting potential of children’s literature. The aim of this article is to discuss and illustrate to what extent the contrastive …
This property offers much character and charm”
Evaluation" may be expressed through varying context-dependent and, there-fore, often unpredictable lexico-grammatical operators. Its analysis relies, at least partly, on “local” grammars or categories (Hunston and Sinclair 1999). The aim of this paper is to outline a systematic approach to the identification of evaluative meaning in the discourse of online property advertising, which can be applied to the analysis of evaluation in other types of…
Mind you stay on the path!’ The representation of the parent–child relationship in stories for children
It is widely accepted that stories for children may function as educational vehicles to the extent that they model and reflect expectations about children's and adults’ roles and responsibilities. The educational message may be communicated directly through explicit evaluation of characters and events by the narrative voice or indirectly through the writer's representation of the main characters (their actions, experiences and words). This paper …
Attitude and subjectivity in Italian and British hard-news reporting
The critical linguistic analysis of authorial stance in English news reporting has long been concerned with uncovering the ideological bias embedded in the seemingly objective and neutral representation of people and events. Interest has recently shifted towards the nature of the authorial voice itself and the extent to which this semblance of objectivity is also typical in non-English reporting (e.g. Thomson et al., 2008). This article explores …
Democratic participation and Letters to the Editor in Britain and Italy
Both in Italy and Britain ‘Letters to the Editor’ can arguably be considered a means through which readers can express and debate opinions on current affairs and thereby contribute to and participate in the democratic process. Two main questions arise: first, to what extent can one talk about ‘democratic participation’ in either case, given the role of the ‘Letters' in the two cultural settings?; second, to what extent and at what levels does the…
Attitude and subjectivity in Italian and British hard-news reporting
The critical linguistic analysis of authorial stance in English news reporting has long been concerned with uncovering the ideological bias embedded in the seemingly objective and neutral representation of people and events. Interest has recently shifted towards the nature of the authorial voice itself and the extent to which this semblance of objectivity is also typical in non-English reporting (e.g. Thomson et al., 2008). This article explores …
Expression of empathy in a Facebook-based diabetes support group
Analyzing the view from here, there and nowhere
Democratic participation and Letters to the Editor in Britain and Italy
Both in Italy and Britain ‘Letters to the Editor’ can arguably be considered a means through which readers can express and debate opinions on current affairs and thereby contribute to and participate in the democratic process. Two main questions arise: first, to what extent can one talk about ‘democratic participation’ in either case, given the role of the ‘Letters' in the two cultural settings?; second, to what extent and at what levels does the…
The values of trees and woodland
Discourse analysis has been widely applied to the study of environmental communication, highlighting how language is used to reflect and affect our attitudes towards the natural world. The potential of discourse analysis to ‘reveal’ the values that people attribute to nature has recently been recognized in the context of environmental debates. This paper takes a new cross-disciplinary approach to the analysis of evaluation, combining a discourse …
Multimodal expression of authorial affect in a British television news programme
Democratic participation and Letters to the Editor in Britain and Italy
Both in Italy and Britain ‘Letters to the Editor’ can arguably be considered a means through which readers can express and debate opinions on current affairs and thereby contribute to and participate in the democratic process. Two main questions arise: first, to what extent can one talk about ‘democratic participation’ in either case, given the role of the ‘Letters' in the two cultural settings?; second, to what extent and at what levels does the…
Mind you stay on the path!’ The representation of the parent–child relationship in stories for children
It is widely accepted that stories for children may function as educational vehicles to the extent that they model and reflect expectations about children's and adults’ roles and responsibilities. The educational message may be communicated directly through explicit evaluation of characters and events by the narrative voice or indirectly through the writer's representation of the main characters (their actions, experiences and words). This paper …
Attitude and subjectivity in Italian and British hard-news reporting
The critical linguistic analysis of authorial stance in English news reporting has long been concerned with uncovering the ideological bias embedded in the seemingly objective and neutral representation of people and events. Interest has recently shifted towards the nature of the authorial voice itself and the extent to which this semblance of objectivity is also typical in non-English reporting (e.g. Thomson et al., 2008). This article explores …
'Foreignizing' or 'Domesticating' the Ideology of Parental Control in Translating Stories for Children
Translating for children is increasingly being recognized as a challenge worthy of as much attention as translating for adults. One of the key issues debated in this domain is the choice between ‘foreignizing’ and ‘domesticating’ strategies in relation to the pedagogic or, more generally, ideology forming or ideology-reflecting potential of children’s literature. The aim of this article is to discuss and illustrate to what extent the contrastive …
This property offers much character and charm”
Evaluation" may be expressed through varying context-dependent and, there-fore, often unpredictable lexico-grammatical operators. Its analysis relies, at least partly, on “local” grammars or categories (Hunston and Sinclair 1999). The aim of this paper is to outline a systematic approach to the identification of evaluative meaning in the discourse of online property advertising, which can be applied to the analysis of evaluation in other types of…
Multimodal expression of authorial affect in a British television news programme
Analyzing the view from here, there and nowhere
Patient-Centred Communication in Ask-the-Expert Healthcare Websites
The study presented in this article explores to what extent and in what ways the communication between clinicians and patients on Ask-the-Expert healthcare websites is patient-centred. It further demonstrates the value of using a theory- and text-driven discourse analytical approach for the analysis of verbal communication in a (specific health) professional domain. The UK website Netdoctor is used as a case study. Thirty exchanges from this site…
Expression of empathy in a Facebook-based diabetes support group
Rapport-building in suspects’ police interviews
Both research and police guidelines acknowledge the value of rapport-building in police interview with suspects (ISs) and provide some insight into how ‘rapport’ may be defined and built in this context. Rapport is, however, difficult to operationalise and assess in practice, other than for the routine legal clarification offered to suspects at the beginning of the interview. This paper takes an original discourse-pragmatic and ethnographic appro…
The values of trees and woodland
Discourse analysis has been widely applied to the study of environmental communication, highlighting how language is used to reflect and affect our attitudes towards the natural world. The potential of discourse analysis to ‘reveal’ the values that people attribute to nature has recently been recognized in the context of environmental debates. This paper takes a new cross-disciplinary approach to the analysis of evaluation, combining a discourse …
Presupposed evaluation in environmental argumentative discourse
Expressions of evaluation in discourse have been studied from a number of different perspectives, all highlighting the fact that evaluation may be expressed cumulatively, through a combination of different linguistic means, and pragmatically, at various levels of implicitness, which often defy precise categorization. This paper argues that, in argumentative discourse, the pragmatics of evaluation includes not only implied but also presupposed asp…
Writer’s argumentative attitude
This article deals with those aspects of language that can be seen to carry out a primarily “interactional function” in that they are used to “establish and maintain social relationships” (Brown and Yule 1983: 2 and 3). Such aspects have been variously referred to as performing an “expressive” (Bühler 1934), “emotive” (Jakobson 1960), “social expressive” (Lyons 1977) or “interpersonal” (Halliday 1994) function or, more recently, as performing the…
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works)