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This paper explores how emotion is conveyed in spoken language based on a sample of three stories for children read aloud by a trained storyteller. It draws on both Martin & White’s appraisal framework (2005) and a systematic account of vocal features. Interpreting and profiling emotion is a challenge both for researchers interested in spoken language and for English-as-an-additional-language teachers, when working to improve students’ spoken expression of emotion. Underpinning this challenge is the absence of a unified theoretical stance and a consequent lack of shared analytical tools for describing how speakers use semiotic resources to convey emotion in their speech. A systemic functional semiotic approach can make visible the co-patterning of wordings and vocalisations that express emotion.

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Keyword(s): appraisal analysis; children’s stories; co-patterning of wordings and vocalisations; emotion in speech; English as additional language (EAL); interpreting and profiling emotion; multi-stratal analysis; multisemiotic interaction; spoken language; storytelling; systemic functional semiotics (SFS); vocal features

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