Class 8
Interpersonal Metafunction: Evaluation: Appraisal
Interpersonal Function: Negotiation & Evaluation
Interpersonal Meanings: Registerial Variable of Tenor: power, frequency of contact, emotional involvement.
Subjective marks of the locutor
Speech functions: initiating and responding moves. Speech Acts: Illocutionary functions. Preference: supporting and confronting types.
Cooperation, Implicature, Politeness
Evaluation: Appraisal Theory
Attitude & Graduation
Positive or negative assessment? What is our positioning towards the proposition or proposal?
Feelings and emotions --> Affect
Ethics, Moral issues, sanction or approval --> Judgement
Aesthetics, valuation, likeability --> Appreciation
High or low value or graduation? Intensified or minimised?
Engagement
Concerned with the presentation of voices and the locutor's positioning:
Monogloss: attempt at objectivity (cfr.: grammatical metaphors for modalization!)
Heterogloss, polyphonic:
- disclaimers, concessions?
- projection: acknowledging or entertaining other voices? directly or indirectly?
- negative polarity: entertaining different perspectives
- modality: entertaining different perspectives, ethos and subjectivity