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A protocol for the annotation of evaluative stance and metaphor across four discourse genres Hidalgo-Downing, Laura Pérez Sobrino, Paula Filardo Llamas, Laura Maíz Arévalo, Carmen Núñez Perucha, Begoña Sánchez Moya, Alfonso Williams Camus, Julia Teresa Producción Científica The present article contributes to research on evaluation by addressing two complementary objectives: first, we present a protocol for the identification and annotation of evaluation in English discourse and, second, we show the results of the implementation of the protocol in the annotation of evaluation in a sample of a corpus of four genres. We first describe the protocol by discussing the theoretical and methodological grounding of the annotation scheme, the criteria, the categories, the steps for the implementation of the protocol and an illustrative example of the application of the protocol to a short extract. We subsequently provide the preliminary results of a pilot study with the frequency of evaluative expressions across the four genres. Results show that while adjectives and non-metaphoric evaluative expressions are overall more frequent, there are differences regarding the preference for positive or negative value and regarding the frequency of function. 2025-06-16T20:52:16Z 2025-06-16T20:52:16Z 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 2024, 37(2), 486-517 0213-2028 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76002 https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.21058.hid 486 37 517 Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada eng https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/resla.21058.hid info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess John Benjamins SI