Although the strategies proposed in Politeness Theory attend to people's attitudes and emotions, they do not deal with the comprehensiveness of different types of Attitude and particularly not with systematic linguistic resources for expressing these types of Attitude.
And if we were dealing with only a few different types of attitude and corresponding expressive speech act it should be no difficulty at all.
What the Appraisal framework developed by Martin and White (2005) offers is a detailed and delicate account of different types of Attitude and linguistic strategies for realising Attitude in specific ways.
Once you say that ordinary beliefs and moral beliefs represent different types of attitude towards their contents (if they have contents at all) you can't any longer tell the simple story.
Effective language teaching sometimes requires explicit language instructions which benefit from a detailed framework of language resources for expressing different types of Attitude rather than merely strategies and principles (de Silva Joyce and Feez 2012).
In addition, the spectrum presented includes the potential for attitudinal invocation of logic-semantic relations such as those of contrast and parallelism, as well as the potential of one type of attitudinal inscription to invoke a different type of attitude – something already noted widely in the literature but not yet formalised to any degree, except perhaps in Thompson (2014).
Reading attitude has been conceptualized as a multidimensional construct (Mathewson [1994]), and quite different types of reading attitude are reported in various studies, such as recreational attitude and academic reading attitude in the study by McKenna et al. ([2012]).
Stigma may play a key role in influencing the importance individuals place on different types of risk; their attitudes towards these risks, the extent to which they trust certain sources of information and accept or seek treatment, and their engagement in high risk behaviours.
What exactly is appropriate partially differs for different types of results, for unit actors with different attitudes, skills and ages, for different types of franchise (fractional or stand-alone) and healthcare services, and for different perceived levels of contractual payments.
29 The main outcomes of interest were the frequency of use of different types of isolation techniques, with attitudes as the key predictors.
