Stancetaking-or speaker positioning-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.

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

• 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,