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<p>Den här undersökningen handlar om hur flickor respektive pojkar i en årskurs fem använder värderande uttryck i sina narrativa texter. 22 elevtexter, 11 skrivna av flickor och 11 skrivna av pojkar, har analyserats enligt Appraisal framework. Jag har undersökt hur många och vilka typer av värderande uttryck eleverna använder och även hur de har fördelat uttrycken över texterna i förhållande till den narrativa berättelsestrukturen. Resultaten visar att flickorna använder värderande uttryck i större utsträckning än pojkarna. Fördelningen över de olika typerna av värderande uttryck liksom fördelningen av uttrycken över texten är dock ganska likartad för flickorna och pojkarna.</p><p>This study concerns the use of evaluation in narrative texts written by pupils in fifth grade. More specifically the focus is on the way that boys and girls use evaluative language in their texts. 22 texts, 11 written by boys and 11 written by girls, have been analysed according to the so-called Appraisal framework. I have examined what types of evaluations the pupils use and how they adopt the use according to the narrative text structure. The results indicated that the girls used a larger amount of evaluations than the boys did. On the other hand the boys spread their evaluations among the different types of evaluations in quite a similar way as the girls. Boys and girls also spread their evaluations over the text in quite the same way.</p>

Den här undersökningen handlar om hur flickor respektive pojkar i en årskurs fem använder värderande uttryck i sina narrativa texter. 22 elevtexter, 11 skrivna av flickor och 11 skrivna av pojkar, har analyserats enligt Appraisal framework. Jag har undersökt hur många och vilka typer av värderande uttryck eleverna använder och även hur de har fördelat uttrycken över texterna i förhållande till den narrativa berättelsestrukturen. Resultaten visar att flickorna använder värderande uttryck i större utsträckning än pojkarna. Fördelningen över de olika typerna av värderande uttryck liksom fördelningen av uttrycken över texten är dock ganska likartad för flickorna och pojkarna. This study concerns the use of evaluation in narrative texts written by pupils in fifth grade. More specifically the focus is on the way that boys and girls use evaluative language in their texts. 22 texts, 11 written by boys and 11 written by girls, have been analysed according to the so-called Appraisal framework. I have examined what types of evaluations the pupils use and how they adopt the use according to the narrative text structure. The results indicated that the girls used a larger amount of evaluations than the boys did. On the other hand the boys spread their evaluations among the different types of evaluations in quite a similar way as the girls. Boys and girls also spread their evaluations over the text in quite the same way.

This thesis explores how verbal and nonverbal signs communicate attitudes and the rhetorical functions of such attitudinal signs. Attitudes are regarded as rationalized evaluations of attitudinal objects, and through their manifestation in signs an attitudinal gestalt is communicated. This gestalt is regarded as the audiences perception of the rhetors attitude. It is shown that the attitudinal signs function as ethical, logical and pathetic proofs and that they can create identification between the audience and the rhetor. The signs can have effects on the audiences perception of the attitudinal objects, their perception of the rhetor and influence the social dynamic of the discourse. A three-step method of rhetorical criticism is proposed, where the rhetors display of attitudinal signs is analyzed according to form &amp; meaning, the attitudinal gestalts they convey, and the rhetorical effects they have.