EFL Wall: Research on Teaching and Learning English

There are many approaches in discourse analysis. One of them is appraisal analysis. As one of discourse analysis approaches, appraisal analysis is concerned with the linguistic resources for by which texts/speakers come to express, negotiate and naturalize particular inter-subjective and ultimately ideological positions. Within this broad scope, the theory is concerned more particularly with the language of evaluation, attitude and emotion, and with a set of resources. That is concerned with those meanings which vary the terms of the speaker's engagement with their utterances, which vary what is at stake interpersonally both in individual utterances and as the texts unfolds cumulatively, For example in poetry and song lyrics. Moreover, this   an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances, to construct textual personas and to manage interpersonal positioning and relationships. Thus it explores how speakers and writers p...

Gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, history, education, and culture are social contexts which affect our perception of the world trough language use. This social life is part of culture that based on believe, perspectives, and thoughts of community belongs to the certain culture. The impact of social life which emerges from certain culture creates new variations of genres in discourse of language. It means human being and language can not be separated from social context. As an illustration, in expressing and elaborating their thoughts, feeling in language, people do have two methods that influence by the social context whether are spoken and written. The social contexts make the language become complex from its point of view. This complexity does give profound meaning in the spoken or written language. Therefore, perspectives needed to unveil the complexity of the text, since text is a fundamental element in language. To reveal the profound meaning in text, in this way, aninterdis...