This article reports a study on the use of evaluative adjectives, a specific language aspect in young adult literature that seems to be employed by the author to express characters’ evaluation toward self and others. Other studies examines the language features in young adult literature (Bushman and Haas, 2002 Tri Pramesti, 2015) and language style (Dwi Noverini Djenar, 2008). Those studies have focused on the themes, conflicts and characters reflecting the interests of young readers in their search for self identity, adventures, dreams and life problems (Brown and Stephens, 1995 Tri Pramesti, 2016). Studies on young adult literature has been flourised since late 20th century and early 21st century and have been interested in identifying defining characteristics of those literary works aimed for young or teen readers.
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