ABSTRACT
An act of evaluation or stance-taking minimally involves the evaluator and the person, utterance, object or situation evaluated. Given that evaluation is an inherently interpersonal act, however, it also involves a receiver of the information, who may be a participant in a conversation or the reader of a text. Other possible roles are the benefi ciary in a positive situation, or the equivalent in a negative situation, the causer of an act of evaluation and the reporter of the act.
