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

• 1. Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stance, ; 2. Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual, ; 3. How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing: Stance in a Colonial Encounter, ; 4. Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-lamination and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult, ; 5. Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture, ; 6. Stance in a Corsican school: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects, ; 7. From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang, ; 8. Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation, ; 9. Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction, ; 10. Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss,

Stance covers every facet of the field, from variationist to interactionist to ethnographic sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, providing a unifying concept which allows for exciting new avenues of analysis. This is a major contribution toward untangling the web of relationships between agency and structuration, and toward understanding the complex processes of social change.

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

• 1. Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stance, ; 2. Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual, ; 3. How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing: Stance in a Colonial Encounter, ; 4. Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-lamination and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult, ; 5. Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture, ; 6. Stance in a Corsican school: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects, ; 7. From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang, ; 8. Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation, ; 9. Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction, ; 10. Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss,

Stance covers every facet of the field, from variationist to interactionist to ethnographic sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, providing a unifying concept which allows for exciting new avenues of analysis. This is a major contribution toward untangling the web of relationships between agency and structuration, and toward understanding the complex processes of social change.

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

• 1. Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stance, ; 2. Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual, ; 3. How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing: Stance in a Colonial Encounter, ; 4. Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-lamination and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult, ; 5. Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture, ; 6. Stance in a Corsican school: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects, ; 7. From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang, ; 8. Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation, ; 9. Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction, ; 10. Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss,

Stance covers every facet of the field, from variationist to interactionist to ethnographic sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, providing a unifying concept which allows for exciting new avenues of analysis. This is a major contribution toward untangling the web of relationships between agency and structuration, and toward understanding the complex processes of social change.