English Discourse

How we express our commitment to what is stated in what we say or write

• Engagement

• Graduation

• Attitude

• Engagement and Appraisal

Certain set of contextual parameters comes together

• Register

• Identifying

• Attributive

• Clause

The Participants in relational process clause depend on whether the relational process clause

• Identifying or attributive

• Graduation

• Clause

• Attitude

Developed by Martin and White (Martha n, 2000; & White, 2005)

• Fundamental distinction

• Appraisal theory

• Graduation

• Clause

Is an attempt to develop the minute of the interpersonal function

• Appraisal theory

• Graduation

• Engagement

• Clause

Concerned with grading and scaling of the interpersonal force attaching to utterances

• Graduation

• Attitude

• Clause

• Engagement

How speakers and writers express their attitude towards people and phenomenona

• Attitude

• Gratitude

• Graduation

• Engagement

The basic unit of Analysis in SFL

• Clause

• Attitude

• Engagement

• Naminaw ba kaha?

Three Systems in Appraisal

• Engagement, Graduation, and Attitude

• Attitude, graduation, and behavior

• Register, linguistic, and clause

• Register, clause, and behavior

Theory of Language and discourse developed by M. A. K HALLIDAY and his followers

• Systemic language linguistics

• Register

• Language acquisition

• Register and Language