Examples of Appraisal analysis on English text
Example 1.1: excerpt from Text1:
1The concept of "task" has a rich history here[Appreciation: valuation]. 2Not only is there a common-sense meaning of task as the job to be done,[Appreciation: valuation] but it is a technical term in Bion's group psychology. [Appreciation: valuation: evoked via reference to valued discourse] 3I have been one to see the task as an analogy – getting back to its roots in "tax" or a burdensome tribute to be paid[Appreciation: reaction: negative] [via contrast with next clause?]. 4In Bion, it has more positive [Appreciation: valuation: positive]connotations, and being a workgroup in the achievement of a task is not only healthy [Appreciation: valuation: positive] but morally good[judgement: propriety: positive]. 5It is hard to arrange and weave all this.[Appreciation: composition: complexity: positive][judgement: capacity: negative?] 6I set out to work at the warehouse this morning. 7I will have a task, I suppose, [modalization: probability]or various ones. 8I must [modulation: obligation] unload some trucks.
Appraising the two texts
In the excerpt which follows (Ex.1.1), sentences 1:1 to 1:12 of text1 are reproduced, and values of Attitude have been tagged. These sentences realise the first orthographically-signalled paragraph in the text. The use of colour to highlight different types of Attitude enables any regularities, or clustering of evaluative positioning to be observed. The framework itself will be presented in detail in section 3 below, but some idea of the nature of the text and its use of evaluative positioning in a type of meta-evaluative field can be gained by the first paragraph reproduced here.
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