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Appliable Linguistics Seminar 13
(Seminar on Language Science and System Science 79

June 05, 2015

Time: 16:00, 10 June 2015

Venue: #313, School of Foreign Languages

Speaker: Shi Chunxu

Title: The Verbal-Visual Appraisal Construction in Indictment Presenting Videos

Abstract: The construction of verbal-visual APPRAISAL in different register has not been discussed in details. Following Martin & Rose's (2005, 2007) APPRAISAL systems on verbal-visual semiotics and Painter, Martin & Unsworth's (2013) graduation system and in reference to Halliday's (1985) model on the logico-semantic relation, the paper is an attempt to discuss the verbal-visual APPRAISAL construction in indictment presenting videos. Based on statistical analysis, it comes to the following conclusions: Firstly, in indictment presenting videos, the verbal-visual APPRAISAL is a comprehensive whole while the verbal APPRAISAL is predominant. Elaboration and extension are main types of their logico-semantic relation. Secondly, the APPRAISAL prosody in indictment presenting videos is always recurrent, which is related to the power of register.

Key Words: multimodal courtroom discourse; verbal-visual relation; APPRAISAL