Stance

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, Alexandra Jaffe ; 2. Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual, Barbara Johnstone ; 3. How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing: Stance in a Colonial Encounter, Judith Irvine ; 4. Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-lamination and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult, Janet McIntosh ; 5. Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture, Robin Shoaps ; 6. Stance in a Corsican school: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects, Alexandra Jaffe ; 7. From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang, Mary Bucholtz ; 8. Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation, Scott Kiesling ; 9. Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction, Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow ; 10. Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss, Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland

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.