The article discusses evaluation in adverts and anti-adverts for alcohol and tobacco, and tries to understand (including a sample of 103 students) which domains and levels of evaluation are expressed in cases of positive and negative evaluation of the same kind of product. The analysis focuses on the interpersonal metafunction (Halliday, Matthiessen 2004; Kress, van Leeuwen 2004), specifically on evaluation discussed in the light of appraisal theory (Martin, White 2007) in the phases of the text patterns Problem-Solution and the Desire Arousal-Fulfilment pattern of the related examples.
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