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3.6.1.2 System of Judgement
System of judgment is the second alternative resource to realize the system of attitude. Following the steps of analysis described in the previous sub-section, the analysis
of the system of judgment can be presented as follows see Table 3.3.
Table 3.4 Analysis of the Text Based on the System of Judgment No Chunks
Analysis Target
1 but the conflict for ordinary Iraqis
never ended in March 1991 following Iraqs defeat and exit from
Kuwait. Positive judgement,
Normality: fate Iraqis
2 With the Iraqi army disbanded and
the police poorly-trained and equipped,
Negative judgement, Capacity.
The police
Under judgment, it is also important to identify where some value of judgment is, at least potentially, activated in the text White, 2001. Where possible it is necessary to
indicate whether the judgment is: a. inscribed an explicitly judgmental wording,
b. provoked no explicit judgment wordings but other evaluating elements direct the reader to a judgment, or
c. evoked a purely ‘factual’ description which, nonetheless, is likely to lead to some inference of good or bad, praiseworthy or blameworthy, appropriate or
inappropriate behaviour.
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3.6.1.3 System of Appreciation
The last resource for realizing attitude is the system of appreciation. Following the steps of analysis described in the previous analysis Table 3.1 the analysis of the system of
appreciation can be presented as follows see Table 3.4.
Table 3.5 Analysis of the Text Based on the System of Appreciation No
Chunks Analysis
Target
1 Five years ago, Iraqis watched in 1
horror as the city they called Baghdad the 2 beautiful was
bombed. 1 Negative appreciation,
reaction- quality. 2 Positive appreciation,
reaction- quality. Baghdad
2 Behind the plumes of smoke, George
Bush, the US president, promised the world that he was pursuing regime
change to unseat the dictator Saddam Hussein who had weapons of mass
destruction and was linked to al- Qaeda.
Negative appreciation, reaction- quality.
The destruction
3 The US president also promised Iraqis
a new era of 1 peace, 2 prosperity, 3 liberty and 4 freedom.
1 2 Positive
3 appreciation, 4 reaction-quality
Iraq’s a new era
4 Successive investigations into pre-war intelligence claims have revealed that
Iraq had neither the capacity nor the capability to produce weapons of mass
destruction. Positive appreciation,
reaction- quality. The
investigations
5 David Kay, a US weapons expert and
chief of the team searching for the illicit weapons, found no such
activities. Negative appreciation,
reaction- quality. The weapons
6 the notion that Saddam Hussein posed
an imminent threat to the West also 1 Negative appreciation,
reaction- quality. The threat
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crumbled. 7
They would endure 12 years of punitive sanctions which the UN
estimates killed nearly 1.7 million Iraqis.
Negative appreciation, reaction-impact.
The sanctions
8 Iraqis would witness the severity of
the wanton violence that sectarianism would create.
Negative appreciation, reaction-impact.
The violence
No Chunks
Analysis Target
9 And for the first time in Iraqs history,
Islamic fanaticism would rear ugly head thanks to the constant stream of
terrorists pouring across Iraqs poorly defended borders from countries
known to be US allies. 1 Negative appreciation,
reaction-impact. 2 Negative appreciation,
reaction- quality. 1 The head
thanks 2 The Iraqs
defended borders
10 In the early days of the planning for the Iraq war there was one significant
factor that the US government overlooked - planning for the post-war
period. Positive appreciation,
valuation. The factor
that the US government
overlooked
3.6.2 Analysis of the Text Based on the System of Amplification
It has been clearly illustrated in the system network of appraisal in Chapter II that there are two kinds of resources for amplification of attitude Martin and Rose, 2003. They
are termed force and focus. Force is used to raise or lower the degree of a writer’s evaluation, while focus is used to sharpen or soften it. Either of these two resources may be
used to amplify attitudes – affect, judgment, and appreciation. From the part of the text taken as the sample analysis it is apparent that the writer
amplifies the attitude realised in the text mostly by means of force activated through the use of intensifiers and attitudinal lexis. Some clauses below can be taken as the examples: