Stance in TED talks: Strategic use of subjective adjectives in online popularisation

This paper analyses “stance” in TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks, which are popularising speeches aiming at knowledge dissemination. Based on a corpus of the TED talks presented between 2006 and 2012, this study focuses on how the speakers express judgments and take up positions through...

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Published in:	Ibérica
Main Author:	Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2015-04-01
Subjects:	stance TED talks online knowledge popularisation subjective adjectives axiological and non-axiological adjectives science discourse
Online Access:	http://www.aelfe.org/documents/11_IBERICA_29.pdf