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Key References

Some of the key publications in Appraisal include (in chronological order):

• Iedema, R., S. Feez, and P.R.R. White. 1994. Media Literacy, Sydney, Disadvantaged Schools Program, NSW Department of School Education. (for links to some extracts, see homepage)
• Martin, J.R. 1995a. 'Interpersonal Meaning, Persuasion, and Public Discourse: Packing Semiotic Punch', Australian Journal of Linguistics 15: 3-67.
• Martin, J.R. 1995b. 'Reading Positions/Positioning Readers: JUDGEMENT in English', Prospect: a Journal of Australian TESOL 10 (2): 27-37
• Christie, F. & Martin, J.R. (eds) 1997. Genres and Institutions: Social Processes in the Workplace and School, London, Cassell.
• Coffin, C. 1997. 'Constructing and Giving Value to the Past: an Investigation into Second School History', in Genre and Institutions - Social Processes in the Workplace and School, Christie, F. & Martin, J.R. (eds), London, Cassell.
• Chapter 4 of Eggins, S. & Slade, D. 1997. Analysing Casual Conversation, London, Cassell.
• Martin, J.R. 2000. 'Beyond Exchange: APPRAISAL Systems in English', in Evaluation in Text, Hunston, S. & Thompson, G. (eds), Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Rothery, J. & Stenglin, M. 2000. 'Interpreting Literature: The Role of APPRAISAL', in Researching Language in Schools and Functional Linguistic Perspectives., Unsworth, L. (ed.), London, Cassell
• White, P.R.R. 2000. 'Dialogue and Inter-Subjectivity: Reinterpreting the Semantics of Modality and Hedging', in Working With Dialog, Coulthard, M., Cotterill, J., & Rock, F. (eds), Neimeyer.

  Some more recent (post 2002) publications

  Martin, J.R. 2004, Mourning: how we get aligned, Discourse & Society, Vol 15 (2-3)

• Macken-Horarik, M., and Martin. J.R., (eds), 2003, Text, Special Issue - Negotiating Heteroglossia: Social Perspectives on Evaluation. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 23, 2003.
  • Links to some papers from the special edition are provided below
  • Sarangi, S - Editorial: evaluating evaluative language
  • Martin, J.R. - Introduction
  • Macken-Horarik, M., "APPRAISAL and the special instructiveness
    of narrative"
  • Painter, C., "Developing attitude: An ontogenetic perspective on APPRAISAL"
  • Precht, K., "Stance moods in spoken English: Evidentiality and affect in British and American conversation "
  • White, P.R.R., "Beyond modality and hedging: A dialogic view of the language of intersubjective stance
  • Page, R., "An analysis of APPRAISAL in childbirth narratives with special consideration of gender and storytelling style"
  • Macken-Horarik, M. - Envoie
• Miller, D., 2004, “…to meet our common challenge”: ENGAGEMENT strategies of alignment and alienation in current US international discourse
  (to appear in Intercultural Discourse in Domain-specific English, Maurizio Gotti & Christopher Candlin (eds.), Textus XVIII (2004) n.1.)

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• Miller, D., 2002, "Multiple judicial opinions as specialized sites of engagement: conflicting paradigms of valuation and legitimation in Bush v. Gore 2000", in M. Gotti, D. Heller e M. Dossena (eds), Conflict and Negotiation in Specialized Texts, Bern: Peter Lang, Linguistic Insights Series, 2002, pp. 119-141

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• White, P.R.R., 2006, "White, P.R.R. 2006 'Evaluative Semantics and Ideological Positioning in Journalistic Discourse', in Image and Ideology in the Mass Media, Lassen, I. (ed.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins: 45- 73

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Please Note. This is only a partial, preliminary list. Other key references are either currently unpublished or in preparation for publication. More to be added when available.

Ph.D Dissertations

Hood, S. 2004

Sue Hoods Ph.D, Appraising Research: Taking a stance in academic writing, is available via the following link: (Hood downloads)

 

Kšrner, H. 2000

Kšrner, H., 2000, Negotiating Authority: The Logogenesis of Dialogue in Common Law Judgments, unpublished Ph.D dissertation, Linguistics Department, University of Sydney, Sydney

Henrike has very kindly made her Ph.D available for download. It's available for download in Microsoft Word format via this link: (Körner downloads)

 

White, P.R.R, 1998

White, P.R.R. 1998, 'Telling Media Tales: the News Story As Rhetoric'. Unpublished Ph.D Dissertation, University of Sydney, Sydney. is available for download as a series of Word files via this link (White downloads).

 

Don, A. 2003

 Attitude and Email Interaction, completed October 2003, accessible at here.

 Don, A. 2007

'A Framework for the investigation of interactive norms and the construction of textual identity in written discourse communities: The case of an email discussion list' , (uses Attitude and Attitude target analysis in examining generic conventions of one email-mediated discourse community) Unpublished PhD Thesis,  Department of English Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, U.K. accessible here.

M.A. Dissertations

Sabir Birot, 2008

EVALUATION IN MEDIA REPORTING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN BBC, CNN AND ALJAZEERA REPORTS: Unpublished MA Dissertation, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool, U.K.downloadable in two files: frontpages here, and main body here.

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