1. Introduction (by Tognini-Bonelli, Elena); 2. Conflict and consensus: Construing opposition in Applied Linguistics (by Hunston, Susan); 3. Subjective or objective evaluation?: Prediction in academic lectures (by Bamford, Julia); 4. Aspects of identification and position in intertextual reference in PhD theses (by Thompson, Paul); 5. Authorial presence in academic genres (by Poudat, Celine); 6. Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists (by Okamura, Akiko); 7. Evaluation and pragmatic markers (by Aijmer, Karin); 8. "This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though...": Negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors (by Romer, Ute); 9. Is evaluation structure-bound?: An English-Spanish contrastive study of book reviews (by Suarez-Tejerina, Lorena); 10. From corpus to register: The construction of evaluation and argumentation in linguistics textbooks (by Freddi, Maria); 11. On the boundaries between evaluation and metadiscourse (by Adel, Annelie); 12. Language as a string of beads: Discourse and the M-word (by Sinclair, John McH.); 13. Academic vocabulary in academic discourse: The phraseological behaviour of EVALUATION in Economics research articles (by Oakey, David); 14. Evaluation and its discontents (by Teubert, Wolfgang); 15. Notes on contributors; 16. Index

English General Nouns has greatly contributed to the endeavour of describing meaning through an analysis of noun forms. Since the corpus-driven methodology in this study is followed by a theoretical approach to the analysis of the data, the human researcher becomes an integral part of the equation highlighting language use in its social context. The choices that were made regarding data selection and analysis could arguably be relevant to the purpose of this study. English General Nouns is, therefore, a refreshing presentation of an alternative methodology within corpus linguistics which offers insights into additional research methods.