Fabíola Aparecida SARTIN Dutra Parreira Almeida
(Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo-Brazil)

ABSTRACT: This paper aims at presenting samples of discourse analysis of two college teachers from a university in Mato Grosso - Brazil, based on the Appraisal theory. For this paper, the analysis will be focused on the category of affect found in the participants’ speech. The participants were selected through an institutional evaluation in which students evaluate the teachers’ performance in the class. Systemic Functional Linguistics is the theoretical framework (Halliday 1994, more specifically Appraisal (Martin, 2000; Martin & Rose, 2003; Martin & White, 2005). The data were taken from classroom recordings and interviews with the teachers. The samples presented in this paper correspond only to the classroom recordings. This research is a part of an ongoing doctorate dissertation that concentrates on the study of Appraisal in spoken discourse in order to explain how Appraisal is evidenced in samples of those two different college teachers.

KEYWORDS: Appraisal; affect; discourse; teacher.