Evaluative Meanings and Disciplinary Values - eTheses Repository ...

in the way each of these evaluative meanings is realized in applied linguistics and business
studies.
While one would of course expect to find attitudinal evaluative meanings to be of
central importance in a study focusing on adjective patterns, such meanings are not the only
meanings identified by the current analysis. Chapter 9 presents and discusses a second major
theme identified in my data, which focuses on the concept of relation. As the name suggests,
relation patterns describe connections within and between things in applied linguistics and
business studies. In more detail, my analysis shows that relation meanings can be subdivided
into two kinds, namely connection and attribute. Disciplinary differences in the frequency and
distribution of these two kinds of meaning will also be identified.
Chapter 10 attempts to make generalizations about the disciplinary cultures peculiar
to applied linguistics and business studies, drawing together the main findings from both
quantitative analysis (i.e. correspondence analysis) and qualitative analysis (i.e. discourse
analysis). I particularly point to differences in eight kinds of disciplinary values (e.g.
animacythe degree to which each discipline conceptualises phenomena as animate or
non-animate) as expressed by the pattern preferences of the two disciplines, before finally
delineating a broad picture of what each discipline is like.
Chapter 11 brings the current study to a conclusion. I summarize the research as a
whole, and then provide detailed answers to each of the research questions that were posed in
this Chapter. Finally, I duscuss the limitations of the current study, and consider some
possibilities for further research, and the implications of my study for ESP teaching.
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