Positioning attitudes in selected prison letters

الملخص EN

The present research aimed at positioning attitudes of a selected group of prison letters in terms of martin and white’s appraisal theory (2005).

to have this goal accomplished, a corpus of about (3459) words was selected to represent five prison letters.

the results showed that the categories of attitude and judgment were the most frequent in terms of occurrence, whereas the category of appreciation came second in terms of frequency.

the category of affect, on the other hand, had the lowest percentage of occurrence.

generally speaking, the negative impression was the mastering in terms of positivity and negativity.