Description: 1. Introduction: The Sociolinguistics of Stance, Alexandra Jaffe2. Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual, Barbara Johnstone3. How Mr. Taylor Lost His Footing: Stance in a Colonial Encounter, Judith Irvine4. Stance and Distance: Social Boundaries, Self-lamination and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult, Janet McIntosh5. Moral Irony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture, Robin Shoaps6. Stance in a Corsican school: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects, Alexandra Jaffe7. From Stance to Style: Gender, Interaction, and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang, Mary Bucholtz8. Style as Stance: Stance as the Explanation for Patterns of Sociolinguistic Variation, Scott Kiesling9. Taking an Elitist Stance: Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction, Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow10. Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss, Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland

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