Crocodile tears for the men of steel
Explicit (inscribed) Negative JUDGEMENT. To describe someone as weeping "crocodile tears" is to accuse them of insincerity and dissembling - a false show or sympathy or grief, akin to lying.
THE closures and cut-backs at steelmaker Corus are a tragedy.
Although describing something as a "tragedy" is clearly evaluative, it's not an example of JUDGEMENT because there is no direct assessment of some human behaviour as good/bad, praiseworthy/blameworthy etc. This, as we will see later, is an example of APPRECIATION since a certain affectual property is attributed to the current situation of steelworks being closed. It isn't AFFECT, in the sense of the term which operates here, because being 'tragic' is a quality of the situation - it doesn't directly describe some emotional response on the part of some human participant, though it does, of course, suggest that emotional responses are likely.
It's important to realise that, in a sense, emotion can be seen as underlying all values of Attitude - JUDGEMENT, APPRECIATION as well as, obviously, AFFECT . Thus if I employ positive JUDGEMENT and describe someone as "performing brilliantly", at the same time I imply that I have a positive feeling/emotion towards that person and their performance. The point, however, is that I choose to say, 'She performed brilliantly' (JUDGEMENT), rather than 'I loved her performance' (AFFECT). Now, it may be felt that there isn't a great deal of difference between the meanings of those two utterances. But there is still SOME difference. There's a difference in the way the writer's Attitude is construed and the Appraisal framework is designed to be able to capture these types of relatively subtle, but nevertheless significant, nuances in the way speakers/writers position themselves interpersonally. In saying "I was very distressed by what happened" (AFFECT), I directly locate my evaluation in my own, individual emotional response. In saying "What happened was a tragedy" (APPRECIATION), I background my own emotional response (though, of course, it's still there) and choose rather to present the evaluative response as a quality which is intrinsic to what I am evaluating. Thus, AFFECT represents the evaluation as a response by, or property of, some human evaluator/emoter, while both JUDGEMENT and APPRECIATION represent the evaluation as property of the phenomenon being evaluated.
