Misconstruing The Construal Of Emotion As 'Undirected' Affect

Martin & Rose (2007: 65):

(3) Are the feelings construed as directed at or reacting to some specific external agency (typically conscious) or as a general ongoing mood for which one might pose the question ‘Why are you feeling that way?’ and get the answer ‘I’m not sure.’ 

reaction to other       the boy liked the teacher/the teacher pleased the boy
undirected mood      the boy was happy

Blogger Comments:

[1] This is manifestly untrue.  Agency is not a necessary feature of the appraised, as demonstrated by the boy liked the teacher.

[2] This is manifestly untrue.   'Conscious' is at least as typically not a feature of the appraised, as demonstrated by instances of the following types:

• the boy loved chocolate [unconscious thing]
• the boy enjoyed riding his bike [act]
• the boy liked the fact that his team had won [fact]

[3] This once again confuses the ideational construal of emotion — as Process or qualitative Attribute — with affect: the interpersonal enactment of an appraisal by reference to emotion.  The confusion is thus in terms of metafunction.