Evaluative Language and Power: Appraisal Theory in South African Political Rhetoric
This study examines the re-appropriation of state memorial space into an arena of political resistance through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics’ Appraisal Theory. Focusing strictly on the Attitude subsystem, it analyses the 2016 funeral address delivered by Dr. Sipho Pityana for Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold St...