politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their audience. to name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with evaluation where resources are used for negotiating social relationships. despite their significance in shaping texts, there have hardly been any extensive inventories of appraisal tools contrasting electoral speec...

academic writing ability is an important goal that learners of english as a second language (esl) or english as a foreign language (efl) try to attain. while esl students’ academic writings have been widely explored, owing to few studies investigating appraisal resources in efl students’ argumentative writing, the gap still exists about efl students’ academic writing. this study aimed to see ho...

despite a spate of interest in the study of the introductions of scholarly articles, thefocal genre of knowledge construction, research is yet to reach conclusive answers onthe nature of this genre. thus, the present study analyzed research articleintroductions, aiming to explore how the process of knowledge construction isachieved by iranian and international writers of english research articl...

Cognitive appraisal theory has been used extensively as basis for computational models. Evaluating these models in an objective way is a difficult issue. Further, integration and comparison between appraisal theories is needed in order to advance the development of appraisal theory. In this paper we argue that a good solution is to formally specify structural appraisal theories using a common f...

A comprehensive and behaviorally formulated theory for psychopathology disorders termed as behavioral-cognitive inhibition theory is presented. It constitutes an integration and re-formulation of several influential psychological theories of psychopathology and empirical findings in imagery research. According to the behavioral-cognitive inhibition theory the development of PTSD and other psych...

Appraisal theory, a functional approach to understanding emotion elicitation is described. Three distinct classes of appraisal models are reviewed: structural – which describe the cognitive contents of appraisal and how those contents map onto the elicitation of various distinct emotions; procedural – which describe the cognitive processes underlying appraisal; and relational – which describe h...

1.1. Emotional Appraisal Process and Affect States Emotional processing is a multidimensional activity that includes appraisal of an event, subjective experience, physiological change, emotion expression, and action tendencies [1 4]. Experiencing events that cause emotions requires individuals to engage in judgment or appraisal of significance or relevance of these occurrences vis-à-vis their o...