Abstract
The chapter focuses on the negotiation of feeling in conferencing, drawing on appraisal to analyse expressions of affect, judgement and appreciation. The generally reticent stance of Young Persons as far as expressing feeling is noted, alongside the work done by Convenors and Youth Liaison Officers to extract feeling. Consideration is then given to the implications of this analysis as far as the analysis of story genres is concerned, focusing in particular on the commissioned recount and its relation to related story genres in general, and the reflective recounts of Support Persons in particular. The absence of the passion play of emotions predicted by conference designers and advocates raises questions about explanations of the success of conferencing which focus on a rhetoric of remorse, apology and forgiveness, an issue taken up again in Chap. 7.
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Notes
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In these examples, we have underlined elliptical responses that would have made the attitude explicit in non-elliptical form (e.g. Was Mum angry ? – Yeah implying Yeah, she was angry); similarly, an anaphoric reference to feelings is underlined (e.g. you didn’t care … is that right?).
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This instance, in fact, explicitly inscribes affect; it describes the YP’s emotions or lack thereof. However, on top of this, it also invokes a negative judgement of the YP. That is to say, the fact that the YP didn’t care reflects poorly on his behaviour or moral compass.
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Disappointed is coded as judgement here, since the father is construed as feeling sad about something his son has done wrong (disappoint is one of a small set of lexical item that inscribes both affect and judgement).
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Sorry and apologized are also double-coded for affect and judgement, since these words entail the speaker feeling sad about something they’ve done wrong. It seems that the victim was prepared to excuse the YP on the basis that the latter received the phone as stolen goods but it was the YP’s friend who actually stole the phone.
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The inscriptions in the analysis tables cover the whole Interpretation stage, not just Extracts 4.4–4.12.
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Colloquial expression referring to the offer of a one-on-one fight.
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For documentation of the genocidal ‘Stolen Generations’ policy by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia, see Wilkie M. ( 1997 ) Bringing them home: Report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
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For comments on the sprawling realization of evaluation in narrative, see Labov W. (1972) Language in the inner city: Studies in the Black English vernacular, US: University of Pennsylvania Press; Labov W. (1982) Speech actions and reactions in personal narrative. Analyzing discourse: Text and talk: 219–247; Labov W. (1984) Intensity. In: Schiffrin D. (ed) Meaning, form, and use in context: Linguistic applications. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 43–70.
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In other words, the advantage of a topological perspective is that it allows individual texts to be placed regionally according to how prototypically they instantiate one or another genre, thus allowing for the possibility of more and less ideal, or even generic hybrids.
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The term thematic narrative refers to literary narrative genres symbolizing an underlying message (or ‘theme’ in the sense of Hasan R. (1985) Linguistics, Language and Verbal Art, Geelong: Deakin UP [republished by OUP 1989]; see Martin 1996 for discussion.
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Reflective recounts have not been included in the story genre typology and topology formalised in this chapter; they are most closely related to personal recounts.
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We use the term ‘coupling ’ to indicate an association of ideational and evaluative meaning. The role of coupling in proposing social bonds will be discussed in Chap. 5.
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For more detailed analysis of this conference, see Zappavigna M., Dwyer P. and Martin J.R. (2007) ‘Just like sort of guilty kind of’: The rhetoric of tempered admission in Youth Justice Conferencing. In: Zappavigna M. and Cloran C. (eds) Proceedings of Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress. Woollongong, http://www.asfla.org.au/category/asfla2007/
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Zappavigna, M., Martin, J. (2018). Expressing Feeling: Appraisal Systems. In: Discourse and Diversionary Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_4
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