THE LANGUAGE OF EVALUATION: PARALINGUISTIC FEATURES AS A PHONOLOGICAL DOMAIN FOR APPRAISAL

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Lugar: San Pablo; Año: 2013 vol. 29 p. 1 - 1

n this paper we explore the relationship between the language of evaluation and the use of paralinguistic features in reading aloud, relating Eggins & Slade´s (1997) categories of appraisal with Brown´s (1990) taxonomy of paralinguistic features. We mainly concentrate on two categories of appraisal: 1- affect, that is the expression of emotional states, and 2- amplification, that is the reader?s aloud grading of attitudes and emotions. We present an analysis of part of The Story of Tilly, a story for children beautifully read aloud by Jackie Torrence. It seems to us that this association between paralinguistic features and appraisal may constitute a phonological domain for the description of the language of evaluation beyond the lexico-grammatical level.