Appraisal Theory applied to the wine tasting sheet in English and Spanish

The main goal of this study is the application of Appraisal Theory (Martin & White, 2005) developed in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics to wine tasting sheets. Firstly, whether this text type meets the defining requirements specified by Swales (1990) for the discursive genre will...

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Main Author: Bozena Wislocka Breit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2014-01-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:https://revistaiberica.org/index.php/iberica/article/view/264
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description The main goal of this study is the application of Appraisal Theory (Martin & White, 2005) developed in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics to wine tasting sheets. Firstly, whether this text type meets the defining requirements specified by Swales (1990) for the discursive genre will be verified. 110 tasting sheets in Spanish and English extracted from the Internet have been grouped into four corpora corresponding to the country of origin of the wine: Spain, Australia, California and New Zealand. An analysis undertaken with WordSmith Tools has demonstrated the positive polarization of all the texts and the existence of cultural differences reflected in the use of fruit-related terms, adjectives oenological terms and "oenological culturemes" (Wislocka Breit, 2012). An unforeseen result of the study was the strong contrast observed between the free and literary manner of the English and the concise style of Spanish tasting sheets.
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spelling doaj.art-cb82976dc8f0409e8e4c96c6a7844dca2023-01-13T10:57:19ZengAsociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines EspecíficosIbérica1139-72412340-27842014-01-0127Appraisal Theory applied to the wine tasting sheet in English and SpanishBozena Wislocka Breit0Universidad Politécnica de MadridThe main goal of this study is the application of Appraisal Theory (Martin & White, 2005) developed in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics to wine tasting sheets. Firstly, whether this text type meets the defining requirements specified by Swales (1990) for the discursive genre will be verified. 110 tasting sheets in Spanish and English extracted from the Internet have been grouped into four corpora corresponding to the country of origin of the wine: Spain, Australia, California and New Zealand. An analysis undertaken with WordSmith Tools has demonstrated the positive polarization of all the texts and the existence of cultural differences reflected in the use of fruit-related terms, adjectives oenological terms and "oenological culturemes" (Wislocka Breit, 2012). An unforeseen result of the study was the strong contrast observed between the free and literary manner of the English and the concise style of Spanish tasting sheets.https://revistaiberica.org/index.php/iberica/article/view/264genre tasting sheet Appraisal Theory winespeak culturemegénero
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title Appraisal Theory applied to the wine tasting sheet in English and Spanish
title_full Appraisal Theory applied to the wine tasting sheet in English and Spanish
title_fullStr Appraisal Theory applied to the wine tasting sheet in English and Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Appraisal Theory applied to the wine tasting sheet in English and Spanish
title_short Appraisal Theory applied to the wine tasting sheet in English and Spanish
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