Stancetaking in discourse : subjectivity, evaluation, interaction ; [... presented at the 10th Biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium, held March 31 through April 3, 2004, at Rice University

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of research on stance by offering a variety of studies based in natural discourse. These collected papers explore the situated, pragmatic, and interactional character of stancetaking, and present new models and conceptions of stance to spark future research. Central to the volume is the claim that stancetaking encompasses five general principles: it involves physical, attitudinal and/or moral positioning; it is a public action; it is inherently dialogic, interactional, and sequential; it indexes broader sociocultural contexts; and it is consequential to the interactants. Each paper explores one or more of these dimensions of stance from perspectives including interactional linguistics and conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, language description, discourse analysis, and sociocultural linguistics. Research languages include conversational American English, colloquial Indonesian, and Finnish. The understanding of stance that emerges is heterogeneous and variegated, and always intertwined with the pragmatic and social aspects of human conduct. Stancetaking In Discourse : An Introduction / Robert Englebretson -- Using A Corpus To Investigate Stance Quantitatively And Qualitatively / Susan Hunston -- Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking / Barbara Johnstone -- Grammatical Resources For Social Purposes : Some Aspects Of Stancetaking In Colloquial Indonesian Conversation / Robert Englebretson -- Subjective And Intersubjective Uses Of Generalizations In English Conversations / Joanne Scheibman -- The Stance Triangle / John W. Du Bois -- The Role Of I Guess In Conversational Stancetaking / Elise Kärkkäinen -- Stance Markers In Spoken Finnish : Minun Mielestä And Minusta In Assessments / Mirka Rauniomaa -- Stancetaking As An Interactional Activity : Challenging The Prior Speaker / Tiina Keisanen -- Positioning And Alignment As Activities Of Stancetaking In News Interviews / Pentti Haddington. Edited By Robert Englebretson. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Stancetaking in Discourse......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Stancetaking in discourse......Page 10 Using a corpus to investigate stance quantitatively and qualitatively......Page 36 Linking identity and dialect through stancetaking......Page 58 Grammatical resources for social purposes......Page 78 Subjective and intersubjective uses of generalizations in English conversations......Page 120 The stance triangle......Page 148 The role of I guess in conversational stancetaking......Page 192 Stance markers in spoken Finnish......Page 230 Stancetaking as an interactional activity......Page 262 Positioning and alignment as activities of stancetaking in news interviews......Page 292 Name index......Page 328 Subject index......Page 330 The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series......Page 333