Adjectives as a Persuasive Strategy in Online Book Reviews

Abstract

The focus of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the use of adjectives as a persuasive strategy in online book reviews. The theoretical part concerns with book review as a genre, its structure and evaluative language, and also describes adjectives, their morphology, syntax, and semantics. The practical part consists of methodology and framework used to analyze the corpus of this thesis and also presents findings and results of the analysis.