Museum publicity texts are one of the significant means to effectively convey cultural messages, therefore, it’s necessary to secure a successful translation. From the perspective of Appraisal Theory, this paper, with British Museum as a reference, uses UAM Corpus software for the comparative analysis of appraisal resources of publicity texts of Shaanxi History Museum, hoping to shed light on future translation of museum publicity texts.
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