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Stance : Sociolinguistic Perspectives
ISBN: 9780195331646 | 0195331648
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/4/2009
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All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions vis-a-vis the expressive, referential, interactional and social implications of their speech. This book brings together contributions in a new and dynamic current of academic explorations of stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical texts, naturally occurring conversation, classroom interaction and interviews, leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics in this volume explore how ... MORE
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stance | p. 3 |
| Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual | p. 29 |
| Stance in a Colonial Encounter: How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing | p. 53 |
| Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-Lamination, and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult | p. 72 |
| Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture | ... MORE |
| Stance in a Corsican School: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the Production of Bilingual Subjects | p. 119 |
| From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang | p. 146 |
| Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation | p. 171 |
| Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction | p. 195 |
| Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 251 |
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Alexandra Jaffe is Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, CSU Long Beach. She is the author of Ideologies in Action: Language Politics in Corsica.
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