Chapter 1 Key Principles for Analysing Appraisal 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Issues around choosing texts for Appraisal analysis 1.3 Issues around analysing Appraisal in texts 1.4 Text-as-text versus text-as-corpus 1.5 Corpus-based/text-based analysis versus corpus-driven/text-driven analysis 1.6 Some general principles for analysing Appraisal in texts 1.7 Variation across and within datasets 1.8 Issues around interpreting Appraisal 1.9 Conclusion Chapter 2 The Strategic Ritual of Emotionality in Chinese and Australian Hard News: A Corpus-based Study 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Methodology 2.3 Results 2.4 Discussion 2.5 Conclusion Chapter 3 Journalistic Engagement Patterns and Power Relations: Corpus Evidence from Chinese and Australian Hard News Reporting 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Methods 3.3 Corpus annotation: The Appraisal framework 3.4 Corpus findings: Journalistic engagement patterns 3.5 Discussion and conclusion Chapter 4 Politicized or Popularized? News Values and News Voices in China's and Australia's Media Discourse of Climate Change 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Studies on climate change: A brief overview 4.3 Methodology 4.4 Data and methods 4.5 Results 4.6 Discussion and conclusion Chapter 5 Sketching Climate Change: A Local Grammar Approach to Investigating the Discursive Representation of Climate Change in the UN News 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Critical discourse studies on climate change: An overview 5.3 Local grammar approach to CDA 5.4 Data and methods 5.5 Local grammar analyses of climate change 5.6 Results and discussion 5.7 Conclusion Chapter 6 Sketching Landscapes in Discourse Analysis (1978-2018): A Bibliometric Study 6.1 Introduction 6.2 A brief review of the literature 6.3 Methodology 6.4 Data cleaning 6.5 Data analysis 6.6 Results and discussion 6.7 Conclusion and implications