Stance

Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-533164-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions vis-à-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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaffe, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1.: Alexandra Jaffe: Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stance,

- 2.: Barbara Johnstone: Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual,

- 3.: Judith Irvine: How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing: Stance in a Colonial Encounter,

- 4.: Janet McIntosh: Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-lamination and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult,

- 5.: Robin Shoaps: Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture,

- 6.: Alexandra Jaffe: Stance in a Corsican school: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects,

- 7.: Mary Bucholtz: From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang,

- 8.: Scott Kiesling: Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation,

- 9.: Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow: Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction,

- 10: Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland: Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss,

Über Autor(innen)

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