An Analytic Study of the Evaluative Resources Used in American and Iraqi Opinion Columns

This study investigates how American and Iraqi writers utilize the evaluative resources in newspaper opinion articles (henceforth, op-eds) from a critical discourse analysis perspective. It explores of op-ed pieces draw on to establish their attitudes, create rhetorical effects, serve ideologies influencing readers’ addressees’ feelings attitudes towards certain subject matters. hopes enhance thinking readers an increasingly important journalistic genre democratic societies. The main questions this raises are: On which categories attitude markers do base evaluation? Which types referencing external voices are most recurrent? And why? researcher adopts Martin White’s (2005) appraisal theory Van Dijk’s (2006) ideology perspective achieve study’s goals. After applying qualitative quantitative methods, finds that significant ideological strategy positive-self presentation negative other-presentation significantly motivates used by writers. Both use similar techniques terms distribution. also there variations concerning overall frequencies sub-types under examination across corpus.