This book analyses European media discourses using a variety of tools, including appraisal analysis, argumentation theory, multimodal approaches and corpus linguistics, with various theoretical approaches, including SFL and corpus-informed discourse studies, critical discourse analysis, semio-communicative approaches, and Bakhtinian perspectives.

Manuel Casado-Velarde: Foreword – Ruth Breeze / Inés Olza: Introduction – Juana I. Marín-Arrese: Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in journalistic discourse: The Engagement system revisited – María de los Ángeles Gómez González: Concession in evaluative argumentative discourse: The semantics, pragmatics and discourse functions of but and although – Laura Alba-Juez: Evaluation in the headlines of tabloids and broadsheets: A comparative study – Paola Catenaccio: Negotiating futures in socio-technical controversies in the media: strategies of opinion orientation – Frank J. Harslem: The banality of evil. A study about translating «los desaparecidos» in the German and English press – Isabel Corona: «A life well lived of a lady well loved»: The power of appraisal in the comments section – Jasper Vandenberghe: The evaluative potential of colonial metaphor scenarios in (written) media representations of Spain’s economic expansion. Spanish investors as forceful aggressors or audacious pioneers? – Jan Zienkowski: Re-articulating critical awareness about racism in public discourse: Changing one’s mind on the Black Pete debates in the Netherlands – Notes on Contributors