Contents // List of Figures vii // List of Tables ix // Acknowledgements x // Preface xi // 1 Introduction 1 // 1.1 Modelling appraisal resources 1 // 1.2 Appraisal in a functional model of language 7 // 1.3 Situating appraisal in SFL 33 // 1.4 Appraisal - an overview 34 // 1.5 Appraisal and other traditions of evaluative // language analysis 38 // 1.6 Outline of this book 40 // 2 Attitude: Ways of Feeling 42 // 2.1 Kinds of feeling 42 // 2.2 Affect 45 // 2.3 Judgement 52 // 2.4 Appreciation 56 // 2.5 Borders 58 // 2.6 Indirect realisations 61 // 2.7 Beyond attitude 68 // 2.8 Analysing attitude 69 // 3 Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity // and the Construed Reader 92 // 3.1 Introduction: a dialogic perspective 92 // 3.2 Value position, alignment and the putative reader 95 // 3.3 The resources of intersubjective stance: an overview // of engagement 97 // 3.4 Engagement and the dialogistic status of bare // assertions 98 // 3.5 Heteroglossia: dialogic contraction and expansion 102 // 3.6 Entertain: the dialogistic expansiveness of modality // and evidentiality 104 // v // vi Contents // 3.7 Dialogistic expansion through the externalised // proposition - attribution 111 // 3.8 The resources of dialogic contraction - overview: // disclaim and proclaim 117 // 3.9 Disclaim: deny (negation) 118 // 3.10 Disclaim: counter 120 // 3.11 Proclaim: concur, pronounce and endorse 121 // 3.12 Proclaim: concur 122 // 3.13 Proclaim: endorsement 126 // 3.14 Proclaim: pronounce 127
3.15 Engagement, intertextuality and the grammar of // reported speech 133 // 3.16 Graduation: an overview 135 // 3.17 Graduation: focus 137 // 3.18 Graduation: force - intensification and quantification 140 // 3.19 Force: intensification 141 // 3.20 Force: quantification 148 // 3.21 Force (intensification and quantification), // attitude and writer-reader relationships 152 // 3.22 Analysing intersubjective positioning 153 // 4 Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance 161 // 4.1 Introduction 161 // 4.2 Evaluative key in journalistic discourse the ’voices’ of news, analysis and commentary 164 // 4.3 Evaluative key and the discourses of // secondary-school history 184 // 4.4 Stance 186 // 4.5 Signature 203 // 4.6 Evaluation and reaction 206 // 4.7 Coda... 207 // 5 Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis 210 // 5.1 Appraising discourse 210 // 5.2 War or Peace: a rhetoric of grief and hatred 212 // 5.3 Mourning: an unfortunate case of keystone cops 234 // 5.4 Envoi 260 // References 262 // Index 274