The provoked attitudinal values and their persuasive functions are then analysed in detail, and considered in terms of their cumulative functions in the flow of discourse in each text and as a collective set of editorials.
This paper focuses on the persuasive functions of the provoked attitudinal values.
A separate discriminant function analyses revealed that the attitudinal variables of self-confidence, resilience, and satisfaction also successfully discriminated between pass and failure.
According to the ICF, the environment contains a large number of physical, social and attitudinal factors which may limit or facilitate functioning.
These associations and the attitudinal positions they invoke are thus ultimately a function of intertextuality, in the broadest sense of the term i.e. in the sense which underlies Bakhtin's much quoted dictum that 'Each utterance is filled with echoes and reverberations of other utterances to which it is related by the communality of the sphere of speech communication' (Bakhtin 1986: 91).
The rhetorical functions lie in its usage to provoke attitudinal values.
Moreover, context supplies a function fc, which, in effect, "thins" this attitudinal object.
Other data collected in the survey, including attitudinal questions and sociodemographic information, can also enter the value functions as explanatory variables.
Other data collected in the survey, including attitudinal questions and socio-demographic information, may also enter the value functions as explanatory variables.
Tables 5-wrap> and 6-wrap> show the responses to the attitudinal questions of the management of breast cancer as a function of age and SES.
Tables 5 and 6 show the responses to the attitudinal statements regarding outcomes associated with breast cancer, as a function of age and SES.
