Stancetaking in discourse: An introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Stancetaking in discourse: An introduction 1
5. Using a corpus to investigate stance quantitatively and qualitatively 27
6. Linking identity and dialect through stancetaking 49
7. Grammatical resources for social purposes: Some aspects of stancetaking in colloquial Indonesian conversation 69
8. Subjective and intersubjective uses of generalizations in English conversations 111
9. The stance triangle 139
10. The role of I guess in conversational stancetaking 183
11. Stance markers in spoken Finnish: Minun mielestä and minusta in assessments 221
12. Stancetaking as an interactional activity: Challenging the prior speaker 253
13. Positioning and alignment as activities of stancetaking in news interviews 283
14. Name index 319
15. Subject index 321