An Appraisal-based Comparative Study on English and Chinese Movie Review

Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v3i5.1070

Feiqing Ming

Gu'an County Teachers' Refresher School, Langfang 065500, China

Abstract

With appraisal theory as its theoretical foundation and basing on a self-built small-scaled Chinese and English movie review corpus, the research is conducted from the perspective of types of attitude. Combining qualitative method and quantitative method together, the author tries to make in-depth analyses about the differences of distributions of attitudinal resources in English and Chinese movie reviews. The research concludes that the movie reviewer's culture background will influence their way of using attitudinal resources.

Keywords

Chinese and English movie reviews, types of attitude, appraisal theory, comparative studies

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