also contains more negative attitudes which are seventeen 17 negative attitudes than the positive attitudes which are only three 3 occurrences.
Table 4.2.2 The Appraisals of Connie
No. Appraisals
Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2
Excerpt 3 +
- +
- +
-
1. Judgment
Normality 2
- -
- -
- Capacity
1 -
1 7
- 1
Tenacity -
- -
- -
- Veracity
- -
- -
- 1
Propriety 1
- -
1 -
2 2.
Affect Desire
- -
- -
1 -
Happiness -
- 1
2 -
4 Security
- -
- 3
- -
Satisfaction -
- -
- -
2 3.
Appreciation Reaction 1
- -
- -
- Composition
1 -
1 2
- 1
Valuation 2
- -
2 2
6
Total 8
3 17
3 17
8 occ 23 cl 20 occ
21 cl 20 occ
21 cl
4.1.2.1 The Appraisal System in Excerpt 1
This excerpt contains six kinds of the appraisal, and all them are in the positive attitude. For the judgment, the appraisal appearing in this excerpt are the
judgment +cap or wise, judgment +prop or moral, and judgment +norm or natural. Furthermore, for the appreciation, the appraisals appearing in this excerpt
are the appreciation +comp or desirable composition, appreciation +val or desirable valuation, and appreciation +reac or desirable reaction. The
distribution of each appraisal is similar from one another. As stated in the previous paragraph, all of the appraisals in this excerpt have
positive value. Moreover, almost all types of the appraised in the appraisals are also Deacon Morgan where the appraiser is all Connie.
C.1.1a Mary Magna could get the pharmacist’s attention.
judgment +cap C.1.3a He opened the screen door and, politely inclining his head,
… judgment +prop C.1.5
A lean young man astride one horse … appreciation +comp
C.1.11 On foot, running lightly, eager to return to the festive knot
… appreciation +val C.1.12
Casually, perfunctorily, he looked her away. judgment
+norm C.1.14
where the heat seemed to explain her difficult breathing. appreciation +react
Only the example C.1.1 that has Mary Magna as the appraiser, but the appraisal here is not significant. Almost the entire positive attitudes of Connie lead to
Deacon, how she gives positive judgment and appreciation. She sees him as polite man C.1.3a with good body C.1.5, good style of body language C.1.11 and
C.1.12 which results in desirable reaction C.1.14
4.2.2.2 The Appraisal System in Excerpt 2
Different from the previous excerpt, the appraisals in excerpt 2 contains many negative attitudes and only small numbers of positive attitude. The most
frequent one is the judgment -cap. In addition to the judgment -cap, the negative attitude is also shown in the judgment -prop, appreciation -comp,
appreciation -val, affect -sec, and affect -hap. As for the positive attitude, it appears in the judgment +cap, appreciation +comp, and affect +hap with one
occurrence for each. The first discussion of the appraisals will be about the judgment which
consist of the judgment +cap, the judgment -cap, and judgment -prop. C.2.3c she found herself, full of drinker’s malice, … judgment -
prop
C.2.4 “God don’t make mistakes,” Lone had shouted at her.
judgment +cap C.2.5a
Like giving satanic gifts to a drunken, ignorant, penniless woman judgment -cap
It is only C.2.4 that the appraiser is Lone, and it is also only this example that
gives positive attitude. The appraised is God. Lone gives judgment +cap to God. In contrast, the other two examples employ the judgment -cap. The
appraiser in those two examples is Connie, and the appraised is also Connie. Thus Connie thought that she was incapable woman.
The next appraisal is the appreciation which consist of the appreciation - comp, appreciation +comp, and appreciation -val.
C.2.1 she felt like a curl of paper … appreciation -val
C.2.1 lying in the corner of an empty closet appreciation -
comp C.2.5
Perhaps, not, but He was sometimes overgenerous. Like giving satanic gifts … appreciation -val
C.2.10b … replaced it with pure sight … appreciation +val The appraiser in the example above is Connie with the types of the appraised that
connect to God except C.2.1 empty closet which is not significant in this context. It just explains the room. All of the negative valuation, the appreciation -val, in
the example above such as overgenerous and satanic is related to God. In her opinion, in C.2.5, God is overgenerous to her, so that on one side, the gift
harmed her. Moreover, she also gives negative valuation to the gift by considering it as satanic which is connected with devil OALD8. On the other side, actually,
she thinks that the sight is pure C.2.10b which has positive valuation. Therefore, in this analysis, the effect is Connie which stands on the border, whether she
should appreciate the gift. It will relate to next discussion. Besides, she also gives negative valuation to herself C.2.1 by the word curl paper.
The last discussion of the appraisals in this excerpt is the affect. It contains the affect -sec, affect +hap, and affect -hap.
C.2.1 Facing extinction, waiting to be evicted, wary of God, …
affect -sec C.2.9
But she had been spoken to, half cursed, half blessed. affect -hap and affect +hap
C.2.10c that damn her … affect -hap In the example C.2.1, she feels insecurity of her condition because she had no
identification, no insurance, no family, no work. The next two examples are connected to God. On one side she feels happy because of the power as reflected
by the word blessed. On the other side, she feels unhappy and even the power may harm her as reflected in cursed and damn. She considers the idea that becoming a
person with a psychic power has both positive and negative impact.
4.1.2.3 The Appraisal System in Excerpt 3
