Attitude and Stance in Discourse

✍ Scribed by Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu (editor), Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu (editor), Gabriela Stoica (editor), Șerban Hartular (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 515
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Stancetaking is inherent in verbal communication, as it is connected with the expression of subjectivity and the construction of intersubjectivity in discourse. This book presents theoretical findings in this field and their practical implications, exploring the variations in time and space of meaning negotiation processes in a large variety of communicative forms, including political and judicial discourse, journalism, fiction, private letters, informal conversations, and school debates. Some articles refer to events with a strong impact on social and political life, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or Ceaușescu’s trial. The volume’s approach is mainly pragma-rhetoric and interactional, but also interdisciplinary, promoting dialogue between stance researchers in different fields. There is a specific focus on possible applications of some key findings of stance research in improving inter-ethnic communication and the teaching of foreign languages, as well as students’ communicative abilities.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Stancetaking in Political and Judicial Discourse
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Part II. Stancetaking in Online Communication
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Part III. Stancetaking Devices in Oral Conversation and in Literature
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Part IV. Stancetaking in a Diachronic Perspective
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Part V. Stancetaking and Intercultural Communication
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Part VI. Stancetaking and Applied Linguistics
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Contributors
Index of Subjects