This study aims to analyze positive remarks linguistically manifested through English intensifiers, i.e. very and so, and their collocates in café reviews. The appraisal framework primarily focuses on the feelings or attitudes of speakers or writers. It plays a part in providing communicative resources whereby speech functions are performed…

Charges that language journal editors, intent on uniformity, are arbitrarily legislating language and style, glorifying pedantry, and over-editing copy. Objects to low-esteem given to book reviews. Recommends, instead, informative abstracts to describe current literature. (DS)