THE WINE TASTING SHEET AS A LINGUISTIC GENRE AND ITS APPRAISAL THEORY BASED ANALYSIS

The goal of this study is twofold: verification that the wine tasting sheet may be considered '' genre '', as it meets the definitional requirements determined by Swales (1990) and the adequacy of the Appraisal Theory (Martin and White 2005) for the analysis of this genre within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. 110 English and Spanish tasting sheets were extracted from the Internet and grouped into four corpora created ad hoc for Spain, Australia, California and New Zealand. Subsequent analysis has demonstrated positive polarization of the texts and significant differences in the appraisal verbalization through the use of terms related to fruit (WordSmith Tools), oenological or adjectives; free and quasi literary style of English texts contrasts strongly with the sobriety of the Spanish notes.