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LyCE Estudios 15 (2012)
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Attitude, that includes the expression of feelings and emotions; and
Graduation, which allows us to adjust the degree of intensity of
evaluative meanings. In turn, Engagement is further extended into
Monogloss and Heterogloss; Attitude into Affect, Appreciation and
Judgment; and Graduation into Force and Focus. The following figure
summarizes these options:
Engagement →
Monogloss
Heterogloss
Affect
Appraisal Attitude Appreciation
Graduation
Judgment
Force
Focus
The Appraisal system (Martin and White, 2005: 38)
The expression of attitude can be inscribed or realized explicitly or it can
be invoked or realized implicitly. Thus the options available are to
inscribe attitude or invoke it. When the attitude is invoked, there are
indications that can be interpreted as evaluative given a certain co-text
and context. When we invoke attitude, the options that open to us are to
provoke attitude, in which case there is some kind of evaluative meaning
that triggers evaluations, or to evoke attitude, in which case there is no
explicitly evaluative meaning coded but certain indications in the context
flag evaluations. These options (adapted from White, 2008: 19) are:
to inscribe (explicit attitude) as in ‘The children were rudely
talking’ or