Title:
FREE MONEY OR NOT? THE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMIST THROUGH APPRAISAL ANALYSIS

Authors:
Yuxin Li

Abstract:
With the outburst of pandemic, the economic situation of the globe suffers great losses. In this time, governments and central banks take the responsibility to stabilize the market by taking monetary policies. However, are those policies trustworthy? An article “Free Money” from The Economist conducts a discussion on this doubt and warns of the potential risks behind the great opportunities. Nowadays, economic discourse gains much attention from various research areas such as Business Economics and Environmental Science Ecology, while the quantity of studies from the perspective of Linguistics is quite limited. Therefore, the trend of interdisciplinary researches becomes quite popular among linguists and discourse analysis is used as a typical approach. This research intends to interpret this article based on Martin and White’s Appraisal System and attempts to explore the author’s identity construction in the text. Findings show that the distribution of appraisal resources varies from different attitudinal features, and the author of “Free Money” builds up three kinds of identities by affiliating or distancing with other entities.

Keywords:
Identity construction, appraisal analysis, economist, Free Money

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2021.4420