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Trang 1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY HUỲNH THANH HOÀNG OANH AN APPRAISAL STUDY OF ATTITUDINAL RESOURCES IN ONLINE NEWSPAPER COMMENTARIES ON THE WORLD CUP 2022 F
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY HUỲNH THANH HOÀNG OANH AN APPRAISAL STUDY OF ATTITUDINAL RESOURCES IN ONLINE NEWSPAPER COMMENTARIES ON THE WORLD CUP 2022 Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201 Supervisor: Assoc.Prof.Dr NGUYỄN THỊ THU HIỀN BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN HUỲNH THANH HOÀNG OANH NGHIÊN CỨU NGHĨA THÁI ĐỘ TRONG BÌNH LUẬN TRÊN BÁO TRỰC TUYẾN VỀ WORLD CUP 2022 Chuyên ngành : Ngôn ngữ Anh Mã số : 8220201 Người hướng dẫn: PGS TS NGUYỄN THỊ THU HIỀN i STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I certify that this thesis An Appraisal Study of Attitudinal Resources in Online Newspaper Commentaries on the World Cup 2022 contains no material extracted or published elsewhere except where reference is made in the study This thesis has not been submitted for any degree and is not currently being submitted for any other degree or award Binh Dinh, 2023 Huynh Thanh Hoang Oanh ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to many individuals who have heartened me in various ways to achieve my accomplishment today I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my research supervisor, Assoc Prof Dr Nguyen Thi Thu Hien for giving me the opportunity to do research and providing invaluable guidance throughout this thesis Without her timely enlightenment, my M.A journey could have been interrupted Her dynamism, vision, dedication and motivation have deeply inspired me She has taught me the methodology to carry out the research and present the research as clearly as possible It is really a great privilege and honor to work and study under her guidance Additionally, I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to all of my lecturers who play a significant role in nurturing my interest in linguistic research They have provided me with interesting and useful lectures and created favorable conditions for me to enhance my skills and widen my horizon of the knowledge of Linguistics for the past two years Next, my sincere thanks go to all of my classmates, M.A students of English course 24th at Quy Nhon University, who supported me during the time we took the course together Last but absolutely not least, from the bottom of my heart, I owe my debt to my family for their unconditional love and tremendous encouragement Without their supports, I could not have overcome all the challenges and obstacles on my academic pathway iii ABSTRACT The thesis applied Appraisal Theory to analyze Attitudinal resources in English online newspaper commentaries on the World Cup 2022 The study aims at realizing the Attitudinal resources namely Affect, Judgement, and Appreciation and identifying the frequency of occurrence of subtypes used in online newspaper commentaries The data is composed of 20 commentaries in English and collected from reliable online websites The research findings indicated that Appreciation and Judgement resources are strongly favored by EONCs writers The authors tend to focus on evaluating the different events and people’s behaviours during the World Cup 2022 rather than express the emotions or feelings EONCs writers are inclined to apply more Positive Affect, Positive Judgement, Positive Appreciation than Negative ones to convey their own emotions about the feelings of football, highlight the qualities and talents of the players, and express love for football Explicit Judgement and Explicit Appreciation are superior to Implicit ones to help the language of evaluation clearer and make phenomena/objects become more animate The research outcomes are expected to be of valuable reference for learners of English in writing commentaries iv ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ABBREVIATIONS Aff : Affect App : Appreciation Auth : Authorial Cap : Judgement: Capacity Comp : Appreciation: Composition EONCs : English Online Newspaper Commentaries Exp : Explicit Hap : Affect: Un/Happiness Imp : Implicit Inc : Affect: Dis/Inclination Judg : Judgement Non-Auth : Non-Authorial Nor : Judgement: Normality Prop : Judgement: Propriety Reac : Appreciation: Reaction Sat : Affect: Dis/Satisfaction Sec : Affect: In/Security Ten : Judgement: Tenacity Val : Appreciation: Valuation Ver : Judgement: Veracity (-) : Negative (+) : Positive v CONVENTIONS Italics are used for quotes, technical terms, emphasis, and examples Bold is deployed to mark the first use of technical terms In the numbered examples: Bold marks the use of what is being demonstrated vi TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii ABSTRACT iii ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS iv TABLE OF CONTENTS vi LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF FIGURES x CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Rationale 1 1.2 Aim and objectives 3 1.2.1 Aim of the study 3 1.2.2 Objectives of the study 3 1.3 Research questions 3 1.4 Scope of the study 3 1.5 Significance of the study 4 1.6 Organization of the study 4 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1 Appraisal Theory 6 2.1.1 An overview of Appraisal Theory 6 2.1.2 Appraisal Resources 8 2.1.2.1 Engagement 8 2.1.2.2 Graduation 10 2.1.2.3 Attitude 10 2.1.3 Attitude Resources 11 vii 2.1.3.1 Affect 12 2.1.3.2 Judgement 14 2.1.3.3 Appreciation 17 2.2 Application of Appraisal Theory in discourse analysis 20 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 24 3.1 Research Design 24 3.2 Data Collection 24 3.3 Data Analysis 27 3.4 Research procedures 27 3.5 Reliability and validity in the research 27 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 28 4.1 The overall usage of the Attitude resources in EONCs 28 4.2 Affect resources in EONCs 30 4.2.1 Sub-types of Affect resources in EONCs 30 4.2.2 Positive and Negative Affect resources in EONCs 35 4.2.3 Authorial and Non-Authorial Affect resources in EONCs 37 4.3 Judgement resources in EONCs 39 4.3.1 Social Esteem and Social Sanction 39 4.3.2 Positive and Negative Judgment resources in EONCs 44 4.3.3 Explicit and Implicit Judgment resources in EONCs 46 4.4 Appreciation resources in EONCs 48 4.4.1 Sub-types of Appreciation resources in EONCs 48 4.4.2 Positive and Negative Appreciation resources in EONCs 51 4.4.3 Explicit and Implicit Appreciation resources in EONCs 53 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 57 5.1 Summary of the findings 57 5.2 Implications 59 viii 5.3 Limitations of the study 59 5.4 Suggestions for further research 60 REFERENCES 61