《評估語言：英語評價(jià)系統(tǒng)》是一部全面系統(tǒng)介紹語言評價(jià)系統(tǒng)框架的語言學(xué)專著，揭示了評估性語言的本質(zhì)及其社會功能和修辭功能，并通過對各種文本的分析，清晰闡明了評價(jià)系統(tǒng)在文本分析中的應(yīng)用，是了解、研究語篇語義學(xué)的必備參考書。

適讀人群 ：學(xué)生,教師

“當(dāng)代國外語言學(xué)與應(yīng)用語言學(xué)文庫”（升級版）是主要面向高校英語專業(yè)高年級本科生、研究生及英語教師的一套大型、開放的系列叢書。本升級版或保留原有經(jīng)典圖書品種，或繼之以經(jīng)典圖書的新版，或引進(jìn)國外語言學(xué)與應(yīng)用語言學(xué)領(lǐng)域的新銳力作以進(jìn)一步拓展學(xué)科領(lǐng)域，希望它能繼續(xù)對我國語言學(xué)教學(xué)與研究和外語教學(xué)與研究起到積極的推動作用。
《評估語言：英語評價(jià)系統(tǒng)》是“當(dāng)代國外語言學(xué)與應(yīng)用語言學(xué)文庫”（升級版）中的一本，是頭一部全面系統(tǒng)介紹語言評價(jià)系統(tǒng)框架的語言學(xué)專著，是了解、研究語篇語義學(xué)的必讀參考書。

J. R. 馬�。↗. R. Martin）是當(dāng)代知名語言學(xué)家、語言評價(jià)理論和積極性話語分析理論的創(chuàng)始人，悉尼學(xué)派語類研究領(lǐng)頭人。
P. R. R. 懷特（P. R. R. White）在澳大利亞阿德萊德大學(xué)語言學(xué)系擔(dān)任講師，曾在澳大利亞的報(bào)紙和電臺擔(dān)任過記者和編輯。

Contents
List of Figures xxvii
List of Tables xxix
Acknowledgements xxx
Preface xxxi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Modelling appraisal resources 1
1.2 Appraisal in a functional model of language 7
1.3 Situating appraisal in SFL 33
1.4 Appraisal － an overview 34
1.5 Appraisal and other traditions of evaluative language analysis 38
1.6 Outline of this book 40
2 Attitude: Ways of Feeling 42
2.1 Kinds of feeling 42
2.2 Affect 45
2.3 Judgement 52
2.4 Appreciation 56
2.5 Borders 58
2.6 Indirect realisations 61
2.7 Beyond attitude 68
2.8 Analysing attitude 69
3 Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader 92
3.1 Introduction: a dialogic perspective 92
3.2 Value position, alignment and the putative reader 95
3.3 The resources of intersubjective stance: an overview of engagement 97
3.4 Engagement and the dialogistic status of bare assertions 98
3.5 Heteroglossia: dialogic contraction and expansion 102
3.6 Entertain: the dialogistic expansiveness of modality and evidentiality 104
3.7 Dialogistic expansion through the externalized proposition – attribution 111
3.8 The resources of dialogic contraction － overview: disclaim and proclaim 117
3.9 Disclaim: deny (negation) 118
3.10 Disclaim: counter 120
3.11 Proclaim: concur, pronounce and endorse 121
3.12 Proclaim: concur 122
3.13 Proclaim: endorsement 126
3.14 Proclaim: pronounce 127
3.15 Engagement, intertextuality and the grammar of reported speech 133
3.16 Graduation: an overview 135
3.17 Graduation: focus 137
3.18 Graduation: force － intensification and quantification 140
3.19 Force: intensification 141
3.20 Force: quantification 148
3.21 Force (intensification and quantification), attitude and writer－reader relationships 152
3.22 Analysing intersubjective positioning 153
4 Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance 161
4.1 Introduction 161
4.2 Evaluative key in journalistic discourse － the ‘voices’ of news, analysis and commentary 164
4.3 Evaluative key and the discourses of secondary－school history 184
4.4 Stance 186
4.5 Signature 203
4.6 Evaluation and reaction 206
4.7 Coda ... 207
5 Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis 210
5.1 Appraising discourse 210
5.2 War or Peace: a rhetoric of grief and hatred 212
5.3 Mourning: an unfortunate case of keystone cops 234
5.4 Envoi 260
References 262
Index 274