A study of the attitudinal resources in the movie reviews of the wandering earth—from the perspective of appraisal theory

Abstract

With the flourishing development of mass media, the industry of movie is now encountering a brand-new time. Meanwhile, as a special category of evaluation discourse which is closely related with movie, movie review is worthy of further study and appealing more and more attention. Movie reviewers tend to adopt a lot of appraisal resources especially attitudinal resources in their movie reviews, and it is of great value to study the appraisal resources in movie reviews under the framework of Appraisal Theory. Therefore, this thesis aims to analyze the attitudinal resource in movie reviews based on a corpus of 10 movie reviews of the Wandering Earth.