JAMES R. MARTIN is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Over the past two decades he has led major research projects exploring literacy development in Australian secondary and primary schools. Among his publications are English Text: System and Structure, Working With Discourse (with David Rose), Re/Reading the Past(edited with Ruth Wodak). PETER R.R. WHITE is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Media at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. His most recent publications include 'Appraisal - the language of evaluation and stance' in The Handbook of Pragmatics. He maintains an email and discussion list on Appraisal theory at www grammatics.com/appraisal. He is a former print, radio and television journalist and journalism trainer.

• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References Index

JAMES R. MARTIN is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Over the past two decades he has led major research projects exploring literacy development in Australian secondary and primary schools. Among his publications are English Text: System and Structure, Working With Discourse (with David Rose), Re/Reading the Past(edited with Ruth Wodak). PETER R.R. WHITE is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Media at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. His most recent publications include 'Appraisal - the language of evaluation and stance' in The Handbook of Pragmatics. He maintains an email and discussion list on Appraisal theory at www grammatics.com/appraisal. He is a former print, radio and television journalist and journalism trainer.

• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References Index

JAMES R. MARTIN is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Over the past two decades he has led major research projects exploring literacy development in Australian secondary and primary schools. Among his publications are English Text: System and Structure, Working With Discourse (with David Rose), Re/Reading the Past(edited with Ruth Wodak). PETER R.R. WHITE is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Media at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. His most recent publications include 'Appraisal - the language of evaluation and stance' in The Handbook of Pragmatics. He maintains an email and discussion list on Appraisal theory at www grammatics.com/appraisal. He is a former print, radio and television journalist and journalism trainer.

• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References Index