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Stance means taking a position or showing what you think in relation to ideas, theories, findings, etc. Taking a stance is important for showing both your understanding of and opinion on an idea or claim. This also helps you demonstrate your critical thinking and analysis skills and is one of the first steps to producing original academic work.
Stance and stancetaking are considered here as related concepts that help to explain the patterning of language and the motivations for the use of lexical items, constructions, and discourse markers. I begin with a discussion of how stance can be used in variation analysis to help explain the patterning of variables and directions of change, and how stance is central in any understanding of ...
Stance in communiies III. How to ind stance in linguisic data 7. Heurisic for stance analysis 8. How to do an analysis of stance 2 Kiesling Stance: Theory and Practice Part I: Approaching Stance Theoreically Part I is two chapters that set the theoretical background and rationale for the view of stance explicated in the rest of the book.
Consistent coding for stance in a quantitative analysis of intra-speaker variation raises some methodological complications. First, stance is dialogic: stances can be taken up and responded to as stance objects in their own right and they can be constructed collaboratively between speakers.
Stance-taking is one aspect of academic-writing conventions that college students need to attend to in order to improve their scholarly writing. Stance includes the ways writers express their value judgments and attitudes to forward a proposition and be aligned with other authors in the field (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999; Du Bois, 2007).
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Nov 27, 2021 · Stance is a feature of academic writing that refers to how writers interact and engage with their readers by means of linguistic devices. This study focuses on the grammatical devices—and semantic distinctions thereof—that are employed by academic writers of English to express stance in research article abstracts in the areas of applied ...
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Booth’s model of the rhetorical stance presumes writers, speakers, knowledge workers . . . need to have a deep understanding of the topic and audience in order to write with clarity. Additionally, writers . . . need to adjust their persona, point of view, tone, and voice to account for the special needs, opinions, and attitudes of the audience.
