ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 deals with how evaluation works to construct human interest in feature articles on three topic domains: education, health and profiles. In the journalistic literature, human interest is typically seen as the element which most informs feature articles. Evaluation –though less extensively used in feature articles than in editorials – plays a special role in constructing human interest in this under-appreciated genre in linguistic studies. Section 6.1 introduces several terms essential to understanding feature articles: timely and timeless feature articles, discourse structure, creativity and human interest. Section 6.2 sketches the distribution of different types of evaluative markers in the SCMP feature article sub-corpus.
