Stages in an online review genre

Bibliographic Data

ID15673003
AuthorsM Taboada (0000-0002-6750-8891, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume31
Issue2
Pages247-269
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueText and Talk (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1860-7330 • E-ISSN: 1860-7349
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/text.2011.011
OpenAlexW1975313616
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited11

Genre, from the Systemic Functional Linguistics point of view, refers to the organization of any speech activity in stages, determined by the overall purpose of the genre and by social conventions. In this paper, the SFL approach to genre and register is applied to the genre of online movie reviews. A corpus analysis shows specific stages in the genre: Descriptive stages (in turn, Subject Matter, Plot, Characters and Background) and an obligatory Evaluation stage. Each stage is described in detail, in particular its characteristics and placement in the texts. We then turn to lexicogrammatical characteristics of the two main stages, showing that Description and Evaluation can be distinguished from each other using two features: evaluative words and connectives. Evaluation stages contain significantly more evaluative words. In terms of connectives, Description was shown to contain more temporal markers than Evaluation, whereas Evaluation contains more causal markers, indicating a basic distinction between narration (which tends to necessitate more temporal relations), and comment (which makes more use of cause, result, concession, condition and contrast relations)

Corpus linguistics · Genre analysis · Linguistics · Narrative · Point (geometry · Register (sociolinguistics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subject matter · Systemic functional linguistics · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology

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