CHRONICLE BOOK REVIEWS REVIEW OF GEOFF THOMPSON AND LAURA ALBAJUEZ (EDS.) 2014. <...> EVALUATION IN CONTEXT (PRAGMATICS & BEYOND NEW SERIES, VOLUME 242), Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 418 pp. <...> Geoff Thompson and Laura Alba-Juez have put together an excellent volume in the study of evaluation in context, presenting some of the most recent developments in the field. <...> As the authors state in the preface of the volume, the book is intended as a sequel to the seminal work in research on evaluative language, Susan Hunston’s and Geoff Thompson’s volume “Evaluation in text: Authorial stance and the construction of discourse” that laid the foundations of the field when it was published in 2000. <...> Almost 15 years later, Thompson and Alba-Juez aim to take the field further by providing readers with a collection of papers by renowned academics that aim to provide new and fresh perspectives on research at the interface of text, context, and discourse. <...> As such the book not only appeals to scholars and students of pragmatics and text analysis, but also bridges research on evaluative language informed by both multimodal approaches and a variety of perspectives on linguistic theories such as politeness, semantics, as well as functionalism. <...> Intentionally or not, the book mainly encompasses research from scholars with a background in Spanish academia, yet from a closer perspective this is plausible, as much of the volume is based on research conducted within the framework of the FunDETT Functions of language: Evaluation in DiffErent Text Types project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation with Laura Alba-Juez as the principal investigator. <...> Contributions within the volume are organized around three overarching themes or sections that include 1. a broad overview by the two editors that addresses “the many faces and phases of evaluation”, 2. <...> Theoretical considerations and approaches to evaluation, as well as 3. <...> While the introduction contextualizes the field and highlights the innovations and paradigmatic changes the field witnessed since the publication of Hunston’s and Thompson’s seminal volume “Evaluation in text”, 185 Russian Journal of Linguistics, Vestnik RUDN, 2015, N. 4 the second part points towards recent theoretical developments in the field with the help of a number of articles that provide a helpful overview on the current state of research on evaluative language. <...> I would highly recommend contributions by Thompson <...>