Stance
Subtitle: sociolinguistic perspectives
By: edited by Alexandra Jaffe.
Contributors: Jaffe, Alexandra M. 1960-
Series: Oxford studies in sociolinguistics; Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780195331646
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Language and languages -- Style; Social interaction; Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the sociolinguistics of stance / Alexandra Jaffe; title: Stance, style, and the linguistic individual / Barbara Johnstone; title: Stance in a colonial encounter: how Mr. Taylor lost his footing / Judith T. Irvine; title: Stance and distance: social boundaries, self-lamination, and metalinguistic anxiety in white Kenyan narratives about the African occult / Janet McIntosh; title: Moral irony and moral personhood in Sakapultek discourse and culture / Robin Shoaps; title: Stance in a Corsican school: institutional and ideological orders and the production of bilingual subjects / Alexandra Jaffe; title: From stance to style: gender, interaction, and indexicality in Mexican immigrant youth slang / Mary Bucholtz; title: Style as stance: stance as the explanation for patterns of sociolinguistic variation / Scott F. Kiesling; title: Taking an elitist stance: ideology and the discursive production of social distinction / Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow; title: Attributing stance in discourses of body shape and weight loss / Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland.