He-Chu Sun

Engagement Functions of AI-Generated Text from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory

Within the framework of Appraisal Theory, this corpus-based study investigates the use and functions of engagement strategies in human-written and AI-generated academic discourse. A total of 190 academic texts (95 human-written from the BAWE corpus and 95 generated by DeepSeek-V3) were analyzed. A mixed-methods approac...