The current study qualitatively examined blurbs in the discipline of physics which is perceived to be less infused with evaluative resources and more objective and impersonal in its textual argumentation. The study followed the appraisal framework proposed by Martin and White (2005) to see how interpersonal meaning is textually constructed in blurbs. Findings indicated that writers of the blurb...

Two studies tested whether children’s attitudinal ambivalence toward their parents is related to their attachment styles within relationships. Across both studies, children who were ambivalent toward their father were less securely attached in their relationships than were children who were nonambivalent toward their father. Study 1 also showed that the relation between attitudinal ambivalence ...

EDRS PRICE MF-$0.25 HC-$1.05 ATTITUDES, *BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, *COLLEGE STUDENTS, CONFLICT, FEMALES, *INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, MALES, *STUDENT ATTITUDES, *STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, STUDENTS THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT SUBJECTS WILL PREFER TO SIT NEARER TO AN AGREEING STRANGER THAN TO A DISAGREEING STRANGER. A SECOND PURPOSE WAS TO PROVIDE A BEHAVIORAL AND AN UNO...

Considerable resources are expended annually on building business brands, yet the literature is virtually silent on brand loyalty in a business setting. This study examines the relationship between attitudinal loyalty and behavioral loyalty in a business services context, and attempts to identify two key antecedents of loyalty in this context. In particular, little is known about small business...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on the CDA framework and attitudinal model of appraisal theory. According to CDA, the categories of deception, power relations, manipulation, authority, legitimation, and ideology were considered in the analysis of the texts an...

Tbere is mucb to admire in Fred Feldman's Pleasure and the Good Life,^ and mucb witb wbicb to agree. It is a wondei-ful exploration of varieties of bedonism, and a demonstration of tbe plasticity of tbe very concept of bedonism. Feldman succeeds ably in arguing tbat most, if not all, of tbe traditional arguments against bedonism can be met by different versions of tbe tbeory, all of tbem versio...

Academic writing might incorporate evaluative strategies with the aim of construing and registering attitudinal positionings of writers towards other people, objects, and state of affairs included in the texts, and has been the area of investigation from different perspectives. One of these perspectives has been the way that determines attitudinal assessments in the rhetorical formation of text...

PURPOSE To develop a profiling tool which accurately assigns a patient to the appropriate attitudinal cluster for the management of asthma. METHODS Attitudinal data from an online survey of 2,467 patients with asthma from 8 Asian countries/region, aged 18-50 years, having had ≥2 prescriptions in the previous 2 years and access to social media was used in a discriminant function analysis to id...