appraisal website

[el don]

sorry, this needed some more ID.
sig file appended.


At 2:24 +0100 2/8/01, el don wrote:
>anyone interested in appraisal analysis at the discourse semantic level
>will be interested in the upgraded appraisal website which
>has just recently been revamped upgraded made anew added to dishied
>up and generally reworked somewhat.
>
>appraisal theory springs directly from work done in genre analysis
>(of the so-called 'sydney school') and in systemic functional
>linguistics. although grammarians are not always convinced of its
>efficacy - citing difficulty in the replicability of analyses done
>using this tool - for others, the orientation to semantic instability
>and inter-stratal tension is a plus.
>
>introduction to the model and some theoretical background as well as
>text analyses exemplifying the outline may be found at the old site:
>http://grammatics.com/appraisal
>
>all welcome.
>
>regards,
>lexie

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