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A Corpus―based Study of Evaluative Adjectives on Tulou 　　Abstract：Grounded on a corpus-based analysis of evaluative adjectives which introduce Fujian tulou in online English， the frequency， collocation and lexical density of evaluative adjectives are explored， to clarify the evaluation of Fujian tulou and its unique role as a folk cultural heritage. Key Words： corpus， evaluative adjective， tulou， online texts 1. Introduction As an attempt to reveal the influence of wording and the status of tulou， this paper aims to seek answers to the following research questions： （1） Are evaluative adjectives frequently employed in tulou- introducing English texts ？ （2） Does this employment affect the image-forming of tulou？ （3） How intense is the effect？ It is grounded on a corpus-based analysis of evaluative adjectives used in tulou-introducing texts on the English websites. Researches on tulou have covered a variety of disciplines like architecture， arts， tourism and so forth. Unfortunately， few research papers are published in English. It is less to find study on tulou from the linguistic perspective. To do linguistic researches， one of the most popular choices is to analyze part of speech. “Adjective are words capable of condensing evaluations， classifying entities or describing qualities into a single lexeme”（Nuria Edo Marz ， 2013）. Adjective can be helpful for researchers for different purposes. Yet the influence of using evaluative adjectives in culture dissemination has not been fully investigated. But various researches grounded on corpus-based analysis of words provide available references for this study. Yanfei， J. （2011） investigated diachronic variation of NEED in written American English by frequency analysis. Yanjun， H. （2011） took big and large as examples to observe the adjective/noun collocation. 2. Methodology 2.1 Data In this study， the corpus， which contains more than 15000 words， is made up of 38 online English texts fr