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标题：George Ridpath’s use of evaluative adjectives as manipulative and persuasive strategies during the War of the Spanish Succession (1710-1713)
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作者：Raquel Sánchez Ruiz
期刊名称：Journal of English Studies
印刷版ISSN：1576-6357
电子版ISSN：1695-4300
出版年度：2015
卷号：13
页码：109-133
DOI：10.18172/jes.2738
出版社：Universidad de La Rioja
摘要：This paper analyses evaluative adjectives in George Ridpath’s political writings during the War of the Spanish Succession (1710-1713), in a corpus which comprises two journals, four years and 291 numbers, with the purpose of examining how this author used language as a weapon to shape and manipulate Great Britain’s public opinion during the Stuart period. For that, I have employed Wilson’s approach to Political Discourse Analysis (2001) and van Dijk’s polarisation (1999) as well as Allan and Burridge’s understanding of euphemism and dysphemism (1991). The results permit to value Ridpath’s contribution as a very influential but controversial pamphleteer who wrote about the War of the Spanish Succession within Great Britain’s context.
关键词：Political persuasion; political manipulation; evaluative adjectives; George Ridpath; The Observator; The Flying Post.