In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), appraisal refers to the ways that writers or speakers express approval or disapproval for things, people, behaviour or ideas. [1] Language users build relationships with their interlocutors by expressing such positions. In other approaches in linguistics (including linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics), alternative terms such as evaluation [2] [3] or stance [4] [5] are preferred.
J.R. Martin and P.R.R. White's approach to appraisal regionalised the concept into three interacting domains: 'attitude', 'engagement' and 'graduation'. [1] Each of these has various sub-systems; for example, 'attitude' includes 'affect' (expression of emotion), 'appreciation' (evaluation of things/entities), and 'judgement' (evaluation of people and their behaviour), with different choices within these sub-systems. [1] In the case of 'affect', for instance, these more delicate choices relate to different types of emotion. [1] [6] However, there is debate about the different sub-systems that should be recognised, and various researchers have since suggested modifications of the initial description. [7] [6]
The analysis of appraisal has also become influential outside Systemic Functional Linguistics, in various types of discourse analysis. [8]
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In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), appraisal refers to the ways that writers or speakers express approval or disapproval for things, people, behaviour or ideas. [1] Language users build relationships with their interlocutors by expressing such positions. In other approaches in linguistics (including linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics), alternative terms such as evaluation [2] [3] or stance [4] [5] are preferred.
J.R. Martin and P.R.R. White's approach to appraisal regionalised the concept into three interacting domains: 'attitude', 'engagement' and 'graduation'. [1] Each of these has various sub-systems; for example, 'attitude' includes 'affect' (expression of emotion), 'appreciation' (evaluation of things/entities), and 'judgement' (evaluation of people and their behaviour), with different choices within these sub-systems. [1] In the case of 'affect', for instance, these more delicate choices relate to different types of emotion. [1] [6] However, there is debate about the different sub-systems that should be recognised, and various researchers have since suggested modifications of the initial description. [7] [6]
The analysis of appraisal has also become influential outside Systemic Functional Linguistics, in various types of discourse analysis. [8]
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