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The use of Graduation in Jane Austen’s works
UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Instituto de letras
PRÁTICA EM ANÁLISE DO DISCURSO - 2013.1
Profª marcela iochem
Aluna Larissa frança
The use of Graduation in Jane Austen’s works
Objective: To analyze the use of Graduation in Jane Austen’s works and its reasons.
Theory of basis: The Appraisal Theory: Graduation (only).
Corpus: Jane Austen’s novels: Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility and Persuasion.
Brief summary of the theory of basis
Graduation
Force
Implicit 
adore>love>like 
Explicit 
total nerd / really awful / he laughed and laughed / a bloody awful day.
Focus
Sharpen
He is a true friend.
Soften 
He is kind of a friend
Texts under analysis
“He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable” 
“Perhaps she is full young to be much in company” 
“There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself” 
“‘It must be very agreeable to her to be settled within so easy a distance of her own family and friends.’
‘An easy distance do you call it? It is nearly fifty miles.’
‘And what is fifty miles of good road? Little more than half a day’s journey. Yes, I call it a very easy distance.’”
Focus - soften
Force - explicit
Force - explicit
Focus - sharpen
Focus - sharpen
Force - explicit
Focus - sharpen
 “You can scarcely conceive how they have tortured me.”
“How perfectly delighted they were with him, how much handsomer, how infinitely more agreeable they thought him”
“I am afraid of her, as I have told you before, quite afraid of her, because she is so very clever”
“You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men.”
“Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humored and agreeable!”
 
Force - explicit
Force - explicit 
Force - explicit
Focus - soften
Focus - sharpen
Force - implicit
Force - explicit
 “You will be under the care of a motherly good sort of woman”
“Oh! How gladly I would suppose him, only fickle, very, very fickle.” 
Force - implicit
Force - explicit
Conclusion
Considering the use of Graduation in Jane Austen’s works, it is clear that the author utilizes it as a discourse tool in order to give more enthusiasm, excitement and precision to the text.
Bibliography
http://www.grammatics.com/appraisal/index.html
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
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