01480nam a2200325 a 4500 EDZ0000072779 StDuBDS 20170911111307.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 081210s2009 nyua fo 001 0 eng|d 9780199867974 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS P40.5 306.44 22 Stance : sociolinguistic Perspectives / [electronic resource] edited by Alexandra Jaffe. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. 1 online resource (vii, 261 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Description based on print version record. Sociolinguistics. Language and languages Style. Social interaction. Dicourse analysis Social aspects. Jaffe, Alexandra M. (Alexandra Mystra), 1960- Print version 9780195331646 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331646.001.0001 ddc BK 36444 36444