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<p>The main communicative purpose of Letters of Recommendation (LORs) is to share the writer’s evaluation of the candidate. Every kind of evaluation draws distinctively on resources of grammar. To this end, Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal System was adopted to examine the mechanisms through which some lecturers of a Ghanaian university express their evaluation in 35 purposively sampled letters. The study concludes that evaluation plays a crucial role in the construal of ideology, voice and stance in the LORs genre, and that the dominance of judgement is a proof of the communicative purpose of the LOR genre.</p>
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The main communicative purpose of Letters of Recommendation (LORs) is to share the writer’s evaluation of the candidate. Every kind of evaluation draws distinctively on resources of grammar. To this end, Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal System was adopted to examine the mechanisms through which some lecturers of a Ghanaian university express their evaluation in 35 purposively sampled letters. The study concludes that evaluation plays a crucial role in the construal of ideology, voice and stance in the LORs genre, and that the dominance of judgement is a proof of the communicative purpose of the LOR genre.

Attitudinal Meaning in Letters of Recommendation Written by Some Lecturers of the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED)

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The main communicative purpose of Letters of Recommendation (LORs) is to share the writer’s evaluation of the candidate. Every kind of evaluation draws...

Attitudinal Meaning in Letters of Recommendation Written by Some Lecturers of the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Pubblicato online: 26 dic 2021

Pagine: 21 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2021-0003

Parole chiave
appraisal system, attitude, evaluative language, genre, interpersonal meaning, letters of recommendation

© 2021 Emmanuel Kyei et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Attitudinal Meaning in Letters of Recommendation Written by Some Lecturers of the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Pubblicato online: 26 dic 2021

Pagine: 21 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2021-0003

Parole chiaveappraisal system, attitude, evaluative language, genre, interpersonal meaning, letters of recommendation

© 2021 Emmanuel Kyei et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
appraisal system, attitude, evaluative language, genre, interpersonal meaning, letters of recommendation