Psychic acts have contents that are related to the objects of the world by means of what Dilthey calls attitudinal stances.
This paper is concerned with the nature of resources for activating evaluative meanings in discourse, and specifically with language which indirectly or implicitly activates positively or negatively attitudinal assessments, what is referred to in the appraisal literature as 'invoked' attitudes.
Various forms of intertextuality were noted to contribute to the invocation of attitude in certain social contexts, with attitudinal evocation (what Martin and White term 'afforded' attitude) observed to involve intertextual reference, in the broadest, Bakhtinian sense of the term.
The argument I advance here is that a writer's choice as to whom or what s/he targets for attitudinal assessment can be just as significant regarding the nature of the textual persona being constructed as the type/sub-type of attitude being advanced.
What socioeconomic, demographic, and attitudinal characteristics are associated with whether or not an individual is in a LAT relationship, and how do those who are in LAT unions differ from those who are single, married, or in a cohabiting union?
Patrick M. Collins, the commission leader and a former federal prosecutor here, said the group would even look at "attitudinal issues, like what it means to be a public servant".
In this sense, it was noted that some invocations involve indicating a stance towards multiple attitudinal targets typically both what might be termed an 'immediate' co-textual target, but also making reference to an 'ultimate' actual target.
And having it all means attitudinal changes about what exactly "all" means.
