Envoi: Intractable issues in appraisal analysis?

Abstract

In his introduction to this special issue, Martin posted some of the issues which an evolving theory and practice of appraisal analysis needs to address. I return to some of these issues here, exploring current and ongoing challenges in a social intersubjective model of evaluation. My discussion focuses on some of the methodological challenges of a rich text and corpus based theory of appraisal and some directions current work might take in negotiating these.