Comments on blogs for teachers of English: an appraisal analysis

ABSTRACT This article aims at presenting an analysis of the subsystem of Attitude in comments from participants of two blogs for teachers of English and the possible responses of solidarity presented by the interlocutors. The blogs were selected by the occurrence order in Google website and also for containing evaluative comments on the subject treated in the post. The assumptions of Systemic-Functional Linguistics (Halliday 1994; Halliday & Matthiessen 2004) in the comprehensiveness of the Appraisal System and Attitude subsystem (Martin & White 2005; Martin & Rose 2003) were used both in the description and interpretation of the data found. It is a qualitative and interpretative research in which social and interactional aspects are taken into account in the discussion of the results. The data pointed to some evaluative alignment between the blog participants and the bloggers through the choices of the intensified lexicogrammatical elements used in the evaluations and in the solidarity responses made.

摘要 本文旨在分析两份面向英语教师的博客评论中的态度子系统（Attitude subsystem），并探讨对话者所作出的可能的人际团结回应。本研究依据谷歌网站的出现顺序筛选上述两份博客，且其博文下均包含针对所讨论主题的评价性评论。本研究以系统功能语言学（Systemic-Functional Linguistics，Halliday 1994；Halliday & Matthiessen 2004）中关于评价系统（Appraisal System）与态度子系统的完整理论假设为支撑，对所获取的数据进行描述与阐释。本研究属于质性阐释类研究，在结果讨论环节充分兼顾社会互动层面的相关特征。数据分析结果显示，博客参与者与博主在评价表述中所选用的强化型词汇语法手段，以及所作出的团结回应，均体现出一定程度的评价性趋同。