Abstract Evaluation is pervasive in academic writing, and the past decades have witnessed a proliferation of research on writer's authorial evaluation in English academic writing. However, there is a lack of systematic review on evaluation research so far in the literature. To address this gap, this review aims to outline the major strands of research on authorial evaluation in English academic writing as well as the major methodological approaches adopted in the field of applied linguistics over the past twenty years, and to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the methodological approaches in revealing the matter. The review identified four broad strands of literature in terms of the analytical framework applied (if any): the stance strand, the metadiscourse strand, the appraisal strand, and the voice strand. Then three major methodological approaches, namely the corpus-based approach, the in-depth textual approach, and the ethnographic approach, were identified and discussed with regard to their respective strengths and drawbacks in exploring evaluative meanings in English academic writing. Implications from this review were further discussed, and methodological directions for future research were pointed out.

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英语学术写作作者评价研究述评：方法论视角

摘要 评价在学术写作中无处不在，在过去的几十年里，英语学术写作中作家对作者的评价的研究激增。然而，迄今为止，文献中缺乏对评价研究的系统评价。为了弥补这一差距，本综述旨在概述过去 20 年来在英语学术写作中作者评价的主要研究方向以及应用语言学领域采用的主要方法论方法，并讨论其优缺点。揭示问题的方法论方法。该评论根据所应用的分析框架（如果有的话）确定了四大类文献：立场链、元话语链、评价链和声音链。然后确定并讨论了三种主要的方法论方法，即基于语料库的方法、深入的文本方法和民族志方法，并讨论了它们在探索英语学术写作中的评价意义方面各自的优缺点。进一步讨论了本综述的意义，并指出了未来研究的方法学方向。