It must be stressed that due to the limitations of space, the mapping of the semantics of inter-subjective semantics provided above was necessarily partial.
(A more elaborated version can be obtained either by e-mailing me at p.r.white@bham.ac.uk or by accessing the Appraisal Workshop Web site after August 1998. The Appraisal Workshop will be part of the Grammatics.com Web site, to be launched in September 1998 at the internet address of www.grammatics.com. The Appraisal section of the site will provide online resources for anyone with an interest in the language of evaluation, attitude, modality, evidentiality, hedging, inter-subjective positioning, rhetorical stance and so on. The site will NOT be confined to those working specifically within the `appraisal framework' (see for example, Christie and Martin 1997, Iedema, Feez, and White 1994, Rothery and Stenglin in press, Coffin 1997, Eggins and Slade 1997, Fuller 1998 and White 1998) but will attract, it is hoped, interest and input from researchers and students working with a diversity of approaches. The site will provide overviews of current theoretical developments and proposals, articles, bibliographies, links to those working in the area, draft papers and online discussion groups for those wishing to discuss and debate developing theory on evaluation and inter-subjective positioning. If you are interested in accessing the site, receiving information about its development or in contributing to it is some way, you are urged to contact me by e-mail at p.r.white@bham.ac.uk or by post at, Department of English, Birmingham University, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom)
The map set out above is intended to provide a framework by which it is possible to explore the ways that texts are positioned and attempt to position their audiences evaluatively and ideologically. It needs to be noted that these engagement values do not operate in isolation from other values in the text and that a full account of a text's rhetorical potential will necessarily explore how engagement values interact with each other and with other evaluative meanings in the text. Such analyses need to attend not only to what engagement values occur but where they occur in the text and in what global, cumulative patterns. One particularly fruitful line of inquiry which has emerged at this early stage in the development of appraisal theory is one which pays close attention to the interaction between engagement and the various values of attitude as set out in the other papers in this workshop. It is by developing analyses which attend to this interaction that we will be able to develop, I believe, a more detailed, more revealing grammar of the two tenor variables of solidarity and power.
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