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9780195331646

Stance Sociolinguistic Perspectives

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-06-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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 linguistic stancetaking is implicated in the representation of self, personal style and acts of stylization, and self- and other-positioning. The analyses also focus on how speakers deploy and take up stances vis-a-vis sociolinguistic variables and the critical role of stance in the processes of indexicalization: how linguistic forms come to be associated with social categories and meanings. In doing so, many of the authors address critical issues of power and social reproduction, examining how stance is implicated in the production, reproduction and potential change of social and linguistic hierarchies and ideologies. This volume maps out the terrain of existing sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological research on stance, synthesizes how it relates to existing theoretical orientations, and identifies a framework for future research.

Author Biography


Alexandra Jaffe is Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, CSU Long Beach. She is the author of Ideologies in Action: Language Politics in Corsica.

Table of Contents

Contributorsp. vii
Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stancep. 3
Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individualp. 29
Stance in a Colonial Encounter: How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footingp. 53
Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-Lamination, and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occultp. 72
Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culturep. 92
Stance in a Corsican School: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the Production of Bilingual Subjectsp. 119
From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slangp. 146
Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variationp. 171
Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinctionp. 195
Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Lossp. 227
Indexp. 251
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