SFL Appraisal "affect," "judgment," and "appreciation"

In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), particularly within Appraisal Theory, the Attitude subsystem analyses emotions, ethics, and aesthetics in texts. Attitude is divided into three categories: Affect, Judgement, and Appreciation. Each serves a different function in expressing the speaker's feelings, attitudes, and evaluations. Here's a brief explanation of each, along with examples from news text reportage:

1. **Affect**:

   - **Definition**: Affect deals with expressing emotions and feelings. It conveys how people feel about something.

   - **Example**: "The residents were *devastated* by the sudden flood."

James Spradley's qualitative data analysis method

 James Spradley's qualitative data analysis method involves several steps, which are designed to systematically analyze and interpret data. Here are the key steps:

1. **Select a Single Semantic Relationship**: Start by selecting a single semantic relationship to focus on. Spradley identifies nine "universal semantic relationships" that are useful across various studies[2][3].

Six steps of Creswell's approach to qualitative data analysis

 

source: describe steps of Cresswell qualitative data analysis (perplexity.ai)

John Creswell (2013) identifies six steps followed in the process of qualitative data analysis: