Attitudinal resources in English and Vietnamese movie reviews of The glory - an analysis within the framework of appraisal theory

Abstract

Movie reviewing is considered to be an introduction and evaluation of the movie. It is one of the best ways to attract the readers’ attentions to the movie or to convey the reviewer’s opinions on the movies. The writing style of the movie reviewers  exerts a crucial impact on the readers’ feelings when helping them make precise decisions about whether seeing the movie or not. Therefore, it is of great value to study the appraisal resources in movie reviews in light of Appraisal Theory. This paper aims at having a close look at English and Vietnamese movie reviews from the perspective of the attitudinal resource based on a corpus of 10 movie reviews of “The Glory”. Our aim is  to identify the linguistic features of the Attitudinal resources in the movie reviews of “The Glory”, specificaaly pertaining to Affect, Judgement and Appreciation in order to highlight  the similarities and differences of occurrence frequency of Attitudinal resources used in both the English movie reviews and the Vietnamese ones. Hopefully, this paper will help readers their ability to employ  the appraisal resources in their reviews