An Analysis of the Appraisal Framework "What the Pandemic Teaches us" in the Newspaper of the Jakarta Post

Abstract

This paper explores the result of an appraisal analysis found in the editorial board of the Jakarta Post newspaper entitled “What the Pandemic Teaches Us”. The appraisal analysis focused on attitude, graduation, and engagement aspect. The findings show that the three kinds of attitudes, i.e affect, judgement and appreciation are applied in the texts, but mostly are judgement and appreciation. The types of the items are in the form of a word, nominal group, and clause. Meanwhile, the engagement mostly is mostly heterogloss. Most of the graduation is force and the scaling of graduation is up-scaled