Stance - Sociolinguistic Perspectives - Hardback - 2009

Stancetaking-or speaker positioning-is central to communication. This collected volume explores stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, looking at how speakers use language to position themselves and others and exploring how speakers and writers make use of and sometimes transform the meaning of sociolinguistic variables in their acts of stance.
Year of publication: 2009
Pagination: 272 pages, 5 black and white, 4 line illustrations
Format: Hardback
Serie: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics