Invoking Implicit Attitude: The Play of Graduation in News Text of China Daily

The news text, unlike other texts, tends to directly or indirectly convey the media's attitudes or thoughts with the implicit appraisal resources. Martin pointed out that graduation resource is the most significant approach to realize the implicit evaluation in the text and the scaling semantic meaning may flag the evaluation. This paper analyzed the role of graduation in English-language China Daily and then discussed the covert attitude encoded in the news text.