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Mapping Genres, Mapping Culture: Japanese texts in context
Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano and Helen de Silva Joyce
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 281] 2017
► pp. 137–167

Chapter 6
Wartime reports in Japanese newspapers

Transitivity and appraisal

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Context of culture, context of situation and genre: World War Ⅱ and the wartime press
    • 2.1Wartime press censorship and the battle on Attu
    • 2.2Genre and the context of situation
  • 3.The Transitivity system and Appraisal analysis
    • 3.1Transitivity system
    • 3.2Pseudo-effective structures and nominalising metaphor
    • 3.3Double participant functions in relational and mental processes
    • 3.4Appraisal: interpersonal lexis or evaluative terms
  • 4.Japanese wartime discourse
    • 4.1Transitivity analysis
    • 4.2Appraisal analysis
    • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 7 December 2017
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