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Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments in English and Russian
Text & Talk. 2023. Vol. 43. No. 2. P. 235–262.
Trnavac R., Taboada M.
Abstract: We investigate the relationship between Engagement and constructiveness in online news comments by analyzing the frequency and type of Engagement expressions in a corpus of English and Russian comments, following the Appraisal framework. The comments in question, 10,000 words in each language, are posted in response to opinion articles in the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail and the Russian online news channel RT. In the context of online news comments, users generally characterize constructive comments as posts that intend to create a civil dialogue through remarks that are relevant to the article and not intended to provoke an emotional response. Through quantitative and qualitative analyses, we conclude that the language of constructive comments is more explicitly subjective in both languages. The main difference in the use of Engagement expressions in constructive and non-constructive comments is along the lines of certainty/uncertainty and reliability/unreliability. As for cross-linguistic differences, it seems that English constructive comments place emphasis on the reliability of a commenter’s knowledge while Russian constructive comments employ more modals of necessity, which have a prescriptive function.
Keywords: English languageRussian languagemodalitycommentsconstructivenessepistemic stanceEngagement
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