Appraisal language on appearance representing “Affect” in Vietnamese

Abstract

Appraisal language is a language conveying attitudes, personal emotions and judment of speaker or writer which is an important element of the conversation toward recipient’s activities, phenomena and entities. This writing inspects the judment language on the appearance of others in Vietnamese under the appraisal theory of systemic functional linguistics. In this writing, we identify, analyze and evaluate resources represent Affect which is one of three aspects including Affect, Judment and Appreciation in the Attitude system of Appraisal framework of Martin và White (2005).