TY - BOOK AU - Jaffe,Alexandra M. TI - Stance: sociolinguistic Perspectives SN - 9780199867974 (ebook) : AV - P40.5 U1 - 306.44 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Style KW - Social interaction KW - Dicourse analysis KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Stancetaking 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331646.001.0001 ER -