title: The role of visual and graphic elements in expressing the evaluation in language: A case study of German and Russian sociology textbooks
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metadata.value: Stepanov, Evgenii S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-13T11:32:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-13T11:32:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022
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metadata.value: Stepanov E. S. The role of visual and graphic elements in expressing the evaluation in language: A case study of German and Russian sociology textbooks. German Philology in St Petersburg State University, 2022, iss. 12, pp. 136– 159. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2022.107 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2022.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39087
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metadata.value: The article examines the place of illustrative material in college textbooks on sociology
  in German and Russian seen as multimodal texts, in which verbal, visual,
  and graphic codes merge into an integral entity. Attention is paid to the problem of
  evaluation through the prism of visual and graphic elements in textbooks. These aspects
  are the novelty of the study. The relevance stems from the increasing interest in
  multimodality as a result of the realization that the study of multimodality requires
  an integrated approach. Relevance is also manifested in the fact that evaluation in
  scientific educational practice is a priority subject of sociolinguistics and pragmatics.
  The research is based on a critical multimodal discourse analysis, in which a comprehensive
  interpretation of the book text is carried out. We state that the very use of illustrative
  material is an evaluative strategy, since images, tables, etc. serve as a means of
  vivid and compact presentation of the most relevant — from the point of the author’s
  view — information. Illustrations add expressiveness and emotionality to the text, help
  structure and gradate information by its importance. The texts accompanying illustrations
  reveal both the explicit and implicit authorial stance and the engagement tactics.
  In terms of linguistic and cultural specificity, it was discovered that the Russian textbooks
  are more saturated with visuals, graphics. While the authors of German textbooks
  use evaluation more, especially hedging of their statements (conjunctive, modal
  verbs, passive), the Russian textbooks tend to express a more categorical evaluation.
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metadata.value: The study was prepared with the support of the Russian Science Foundation
  (project 22-28-01024 “Evaluation language in scholarly humanities practices and discourses
  of Germany and Russia”) at the St Petersburg State University.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: German Philology in St Petersburg State University;Issue 12
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evaluation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language of evaluation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: authorial stance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scientific discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociology textbooks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: multimodality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evaluation in scientific discourse communication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The role of visual and graphic elements in expressing the evaluation in language: A case study of German and Russian sociology textbooks
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metadata.value: Article
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