An Analysis of Current Research on the Appraisal Theory

Wei, Yakun; Wherrity, Michael; Zhang, Yi

doi:10.13189/lls.2015.030506

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“…This study has given new information that appraisal can also be conducted on news item different from the other researches to show the kinds of affect to urge the world to pay attention to the kinds of feeling felt by the marginal sides (Palestinian). It also supports the statements stated by Wei,Wherrity, and Zhang (2015) as one of the proofs that appraisal is an appropriate tool to analyze the attitude and interpersonal meanings both in discourse like what have been conducted by Dong (2006); Pascual and Unger (2010); Isaac (2012); Hadidi and Parvin (2015); Drasovean and Tagg (2015) and in critical discourse conducted by Haristyanti (2015) on Obama's speech.…”

Section: Positivesupporting

confidence: 80%

“…A large number of researches have conducted a study on appraisal and there is still a gap found. Dong (2006) investigated appraisal on students' writing in blog; Pascual and Unger (2010) focused on appraisal in proposals which got international grant; Isaac (2012) analyzed arguments of ten international non native speaker who uses English for academic purposes by using appraisal theory; Hadidi and Parvin (2015) conducted a study on appraisal in novel; Wei,Wherrity, and Zhang (2015) reviewed appraisal theory from the current research in China and abroad; Haristyanti (2015) saw appraisal used by Barack Obama in his speech; Drasovean and Tagg (2015) studied on online participants' comments. The study on appraisal by analyzing newspaper online in religion context in critical discourse analysis has not been done and it becomes the gap of the study.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating Attitudes in News Text: Appraisal in Critical Discourse Study

Chalimah¹,

Santosa²,

Djatmika³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)

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The discrimination in religious affair has become a global problem which is very essential to be noticed in a linguistic way, especially for conflict between Israel and Palestinians on Gaza which keep on happening for many years. This study contributes in critical discourse study by interpreting the discourse to understand social culture from the linguistic perspectives by analyzing text through systemic functional linguistics: appraisal system. The gap of the study which differs from other researches is namely analyzing the news item from Cable News Network (CNN) dated in April in 2018 in the religious case investigated in the aspects of language evaluation. The study focuses on attitude: affect to find out the classification of feeling used in the text to construe the cultural aspects. The design of the study is descriptive qualitative. There are two kinds of validity implemented in this study. They are expert validity and source validity. The expert validity is reached through the comments given by the experts. The findings of the study show that the text consists of appraisal which shows unhappiness: antipathy (23.81%); security: confidence (23.81%); dissatisfaction: displeasure (14.29%); insecurity: disquiet (9.52%); behavioral surge (9.52%); insecurity: surprise (4.76%); inclination (4.76%); security: trust (4.76%); unhappiness: misery (4.76%). The appraisal can show that the text has applied negative feeling on unhappiness: antipathy of Israel to Palestinians and security: confidence between them who both of them feel strongly confident in their each deed.

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Section: Positivesupporting

confidence: 80%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating Attitudes in News Text: Appraisal in Critical Discourse Study

Chalimah¹,

Santosa²,

Djatmika³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)

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“…Martin and White (2005) claim that of the three domains of appraisal, attitude is the central domain since it moves beyond emotion to deal more comprehensively with feelings: affect, judgment, and appreciation. Martin and White (2005) assert that the realization of affect can be seen from participants and processes: affective mental and behavioral processes and modal adjunct (Wei et al, 2015). There are three forms of affect: affect as quality, process, and comment.…”

Section: Systemic Functional Linguisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)evaluating language attitudes on Indonesian tourism website: A study on ecolinguistics

Isti’anah

2020

SiELE

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Tourism is one of the government’s ways of promoting the country’s identity and improving its economic growth. For tourists, it is to find not only reliable information but also promotion and the existence of the website is effective to persuade the potential tourists. The presence of nature’s beauty is an overwhelming source of curiosity for visitors. The popularity of Indonesian tourism has motivated scholars to research tourism discourse strategies, yet the study on how nature was represented on the tourism website is still scarce. By applying Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper attempts at (re)evaluating language attitudes of the ecolexicon on the Indonesian tourism website. The research problems are formulated to answer (1) what domains of the environment are presented on the website, (2) how the ecolexicon found is evaluated, and (3) how the environment should be described on the website. The data were taken from 16 destination texts accessed from www.indonesia.travel. This research found that the physical environment comprising various domains dominated the website in the form of appreciation. The domination of valuation on the website revealed that Indonesian nature was promoted in terms of its value. It persuaded potential tourists to adore the beauty of the Indonesian physical environment. The website was re-evaluated to promote not only the physical environment but also social and economic environments in the form of judgment. The absence of judgment needs to be considered by the government considering that tourism should be a good chance to teach people how to respect nature despite people’s excitement when visiting the tourism destinations.

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“…With this in mind, the current study aimed to analyze the English and Persian academic RAs in the field of nutrition employing appraisal theory to unfold the interpersonal meanings embedded in academic discourse [ 29 ] from a cross-cultural perspective.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Appraisal Resources in an Academic Genre: English versus Persian Nutrition Research Articles

Saidi

2021

Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism

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Academic study writers utilize a specific set of discursive resources backed up by both cultural and professional norms to be endorsed by the intended audience. The current study aimed to investigate if there were any significant differences between English and Persian academic research articles published in peer-reviewed journals in the field of nutrition in light of appraisal theory. To this end, a corpus of 40 English and 40 Persian academic research articles was analyzed in terms of three categories and subcategories of appraisal theory. The results revealed that the authors of both English and Persian research articles included more attitude resources followed by graduation and engagement resources. Furthermore, no significant difference was observed between these two sets of articles in terms of three major appraisal categories. The findings carry pedagogical implications for English for academic purposes courses to provide the academic discourse communities with the required discursive competencies.

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An Analysis of Current Research on the Appraisal Theory

Cited by 20 publications

References 5 publications

Evaluating Attitudes in News Text: Appraisal in Critical Discourse Study

Evaluating Attitudes in News Text: Appraisal in Critical Discourse Study

(Re)evaluating language attitudes on Indonesian tourism website: A study on ecolinguistics

Appraisal Resources in an Academic Genre: English versus Persian Nutrition Research Articles

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