Stancetaking in discourse : subjectivity, evaluation, interaction / edited by Robert Englebretson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Englebretson, Robert.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 164.

Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; v. 164

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 Karkkainen

Stance markers in spoken Finnish : minun mielesta 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612152573

9781282152571

1282152572

9789027291929

9027291926

OCLC:

647673107