Drawing on Martin and White’s Appraisal Theory, we study the language of evaluation in a corpus of interviews selected from the archives of The Magdalene Oral History Project Apart from being deprived of proper food, clothing, and their identity, many of the women who spent their lives in Ireland’s Magdalene institutions had been, or were, sexually assaulted, and physically and psychologically abused Their criminalization led them to long-lasting incarceration for no apparent reason and, years further on, prevented them from developing any active social voice Thus, the discursive patterns in these texts can be seen as the symptom of ‘the discourse of female victimhood’, which is mainly characterized by their difficulty to express their emotions and their opinions, and their tendency to avoid mentioning what happened to them and who the agent was The Magdalene survivors felt both hatred and remorse, and seemed to be able to speak about their painful experience only by silencing others’ liability, while making self-reproach and sympathy go hand in hand in their construal of both their past and themselves

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抹大拉洗衣店幸存者叙述中的评价语言：女性受害者的话语

借鉴马丁和怀特的评价理论，我们研究了从抹大拉口述历史项目档案中选出的访谈语料库中的评价语言。在爱尔兰抹大拉的机构中的生活曾经或曾经遭受过性侵犯，并在身心上受到虐待 他们的刑事定罪导致他们无缘无故地长期监禁，而且多年后，他们无法发展任何积极的社会声音 因此，话语权这些文本中的模式可以看作是“女性受害者话语”的症状，其主要特征是难以表达自己的情感和观点，以及他们倾向于避免提及发生在他们身上的事情以及代理人是谁 抹大拉的幸存者感到既仇恨又悔恨，似乎只能通过沉默他人的责任来谈论他们的痛苦经历，同时让自责和同情消失在他们对过去和他们自己的解释中携手并进