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Table of Contents

Appraisal: An Overview

Introduction: the origins of the Appraisal framework

What we mean by `appraisal' and `evaluative' language.

1. Attitudinal positioning.

2. Dialogistic positioning.

3. Intertextual positioning.

1. Attitude/Affect

Attitudinal positioning - the linguistic fundamentals

The three sub-types of Attitude: Affect, Judgement and Appreciation.

Authorial (1st-person) versus non-Authorial (2nd & 3rd person) Affect

Non-authorial (2nd and 3rd person) Affect

Text Analysis Exercise

Analysis Text: Eminem's Mum

Analysis Text: analysis version

Text Analysis: some discussion

The system of Affect in greater detail

2. Attitude/Judgement

Judgement: assessing human behaviour

Explicit Judgement

Judgement and reader/respondent positioning

Judgement - in brief

Implicit versus Explicit Judgement

Provoked Judgement

Affect and provoked Judgement

Text analysis exercise: Crocodile tears

Text Analysis

Text Analysis: some observations

The system of Judgement in greater detail

3. Attitude/Appreciation

Appreciation and the other categories of Attitude

Distinguishing Appreciation from Judgement

Aesthetic evaluation of humans.

Types of Aesthetic Appreciation

A further complication - a fine line between Appreciation and Judgement.

Text Analysis Exercise: Sophie's fashion faux pas

Part 1 - introduction: journalist's introduction

Part 2 - Argument: Anti

Part 2 - Argument: :Pro

Discussion of text analysis

The system of Appreciation in greater detail

4. Intertextual positioning

Attribution and authorial endorsement

Endorsement

Disendorsement

Responsibility

Source specification.

Textual integration: insertion versus assimilation

Overview of Attribution

Text analysis application: Gridlock

Text: my analysis

A brief discussion of the evaluative positioning of the text

5. Engagement and Dialogistic Positioning

An outline of Engagement

The notion of "Dialogism"

Disclaim: deny

Disclaim: Counter-Expect

Proclaim: Expect

Proclaim: Pronounce

Probabilise (Evidence, Likelihood and Hearsay)

Attribution and extra-vocalisation

Dialogistic positioning and terms of arguability

Dialogistic expansion and contraction (open/close)

The `undialogised' utterance - the dialogistic status of bare assertions

Dialogistic contraction and expansion - a more delicate level of analysis

Extra-vocalisation versus Intra-vocalisation

Summary: The cline of extra versus intra vocalisation

More to Follow: power and solidarity

More to Follow: Graduation (Force & Focus)

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