1115 TEACHERS DISCOURSE IN THE UNIVERSITY: AN APPRAISAL ANALYSIS 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. 1. Introduction This study aims at presenting a description of some examples of appraisal categories (affect, judgment, appreciation) presented in the participants’ speech: two teachers in a degree course (language and law). However, in the examples with the process types, the category of affect will be privileged. The study also presents some concepts about appraisal, its relevance for linguistics research, especially in the field of discourse. My discussion in this paper focuses on how teachers appraise people, situations and objects when they interact with their students in the classroom based on the appraisal theory and some directions current work might take in negotiating these interactions. Proceedings 33rd International Systemic Functional Congress 2006