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The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English

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This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this flexible tool, which has been applied to a wide variety of text and discourse analysis issues, is demonstrated throughout by sample text analyses from a range of registers, genres and fields.

291 pages, Unknown Binding

First published December 30, 2005

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September 10, 2020
The book gives an exhaustive account of the Appriasal Theory in discourse analysis.
One thing you should know before you give this book a go, is that the appraisal framework is an extension to Halliday's interpersonal metafunction and borrows heavily from Bakhtin's heteroglossism. Therefore, it would be hell of a journey to read this before you get acquainted with the basis on which it is built.
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June 23, 2021
O sistema de avaliatividade é de longe uma das maiores contribuições da linguística sistêmico-funcional pros estudos do discurso. Depois dele, não há justificativa nenhuma pra se fazer análise dialógica dos textos sem se recorrer minimamente aos detalhes da materialidade linguística: o livro deixa claríssimo que há toda uma (grande) região dos recursos léxico-gramaticais da língua especializada justamente na negociação dialógica de posicionamentos e na construção de enunciados "prenhes de resposta" (pra usar as palavras de Bakhtin).
Infelizmente me parece, porém, que pra grande parte dos analistas do discurso simplesmente falta o conhecimento gramatical (especialmente o funcional, que é de longe o mais útil pra analisar texto). Enquanto as coisas permanecerem assim, vai continuar se propagando a visão (justificada por umas tristes evidências que proliferam por aí) de que a AD é uma área "fácil" (basicamente uma versão academizada dos textões de Facebook).
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