Abstract
The aim of this article is to draw certain linguistic differences which underpin face-to-face interaction of a same discourse community about a same topic, in both L1 and L2. To this end, an analysis will be made of the transcriptions of the interactions of four focus groups (cf. Barbour & Kitzinger, 1999) in L1 and L2 involving member of the same discourse community. The study extracts and classifies the adjectives which are used by the participants, according to the subsystem of Appreciation (Marting & Rose, 2003). It is suggested that a discourse community may take on different identities when it comes to expressing opinions in each of these two languages.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Venturas e desventuras |
| Subtitle of host publication | Coletânea dos trabalhos do V ECEL |
| Place of Publication | Rio de Janeiro |
| Publisher | Ed. Faculdade de Letras UFRJ |
| Pages | 139-150 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Keywords
- Corpus linguistics
- Attitude
- Evaluation
- Appraisal system
- Discourse community
- English as a foreign language