pos/neg; Target of Evaluation | ||
Was Sophie's choice the day 's fashion faux pas? |
Judgement - indicates incapacity on Sophie' part |
- Sophie |
Bold and bright, the Countess's rainbow display at Royal Ascot |
Appreciation - a positive aesthetic quality of the 'rainbow display' |
+ outfit |
3. THE start of Royal Ascot yesterday ensured a rainbow of fashionable colours on the racecourse. |
Appreciation - social value attributed to colours |
+ clothing generally |
And most, it seemed, beamed out from the Countess of Wessex's striking outfit. |
Appreciation |
+/- could be either pos or neg, though striking more likely to be positive than negative |
Sophie arrived at the Berkshire course in a striped confection |
possible Appreciation |
+/ (?-) (presumably, at least in fashion parlance, "confection" is positive - see footnote2) |
that ensured fashion rather than racing was the main talking point in the enclosures. |
possible token (implicit) Attitudinal indication directed at Sophie, but not clearly articulated |
+ or - |
While the Queen settled for restrained coffee and cream, and the Queen Mother her favourite lilac, |
Appreciation |
+ Queen's colours |
Sophie's choice ensured maximum attention. |
as above, possible token of Judgement, Attitudinally ambivalent - is it a good of bad thing to attract attention in this way? |
+/ - |
2 A search of the Bank of English indicates that while 'confection' is typically positive in the register of fashion writing, may also be negative, particularly in film reviews. See Appendix: corpus-confection for some illustrations.
