N-Anx was a significant predictor of acting with awareness and, together with ImpSS, it was also a significant predictor of non-judging, indicating that higher scores on these traits are related to greater difficulties in being present-oriented and comprise a more judgemental and evaluative stance towards the experiences, consistent with BPD characteristics [ 21, 41].
These refinements contribute to the ongoing development of the Appraisal framework and provide a resource for enhancing the effectiveness of expressions of evaluative stance for speakers of English as a second or additional language.
A more serious objection is to the evaluative stance of hedonism itself.
As a way to address these and related problems – i.e. to provide a more systematic means for accounting for the interpretation of evaluative stance and attitudinal typing in discourse – this paper offers a proposal for enhancement of the account of invocation offered by Martin and White (2005: 67).
This paper uses aspects of Jurgen Habermas's critical theory of societal development as the evaluative stance for the introduction, application and implications of evaluation of teaching quality in universities.
Example 1 below serves to illustrate some of these groupings of resources (mechanisms or 'strategies'), and the challenges which face the analyst attempting to account for the evaluative stance invoked in any one section of a longer piece.
Here of course, discussion on the nature of evaluative stance and its relationship to invoking attitude shades into the realm of the interpersonal in general.
A common way of speaking is to say that responsibility-bearing actions are attributable to agents in virtue of reflecting upon the agent's "deep self", where the deep self represents the person's fundamental evaluative stance (Sripada ms).
This means that analysts often need to account for their own readings of attitudinal categories when conducting research of evaluative stances, and thus the concerns of the present paper centre on how categories of attitude can be more precisely justified.
This again relates to item (6d) in the spectrum of invocations set out in Fig. 2, where rhetorical patterns can be used as resources for implying an attitude, as well as item (3) where so-called constitutive intertextuality, or what (Lemke 1995) refers to as compositional practices within thematic formations, allow comparison-contrast and evaluative stances to be fore-fronted.
