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Linguistic Wonderings
Description: Official Website of Appraisal Theory
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This site is devoted to the Appraisal framework, an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances, to construct textual personas and to manage interpersonal positionings and relationships.
The Appraisal framework is an extension of the linguistic theories of M.A.K Halliday and his colleagues (Systemic Functional Linguistics) and has emerged over a period of almost two decades as a result of work conducted by a group of researchers primarily based in Australia.
The materials currently available here represent the second stage of the development of the site. We plan to continue to extend the site by including contributions from many of the people who have been involved in the development of the Appraisal framework or who have applied it in some way to their research. We will be including further references, additional articles and papers, and a database of analysed texts to demonstrate how Appraisal has been applied to the analysis of a wide range of text and genre
inter-stratal tension
Linguistic Wonderings