Martin & Rose (2007: 42):
It might be even wiser to pause for a moment and consider the extent to which our affect, judgement and appreciation framework represents a western construction of feeling. Tutu’s Afro-Christian heritage might not factor attitude along these lines. We’re not wise enough to gaze beyond our categories here. But we are confident that other cultures will take pause, and look at what we’ve done through different eyes.
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Appraisal is a theory of language that can be used to describe different languages. It was theorised on the basis of a description English. The texts analysed by Martin & Rose are English language texts. That is, they enact the interpersonal distinctions of English. The above is merely an attempt to misrepresent the authors' inability to apply appraisal to a text — see the immediately preceding posts — as respect for "otherness".
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