In recent years,“stance” has become increasingly an important locus for research within the
functional, pragmatic, cognitive, sociolinguistic and interactional paradigms. Stance may be
indicated through established lexical, morphological, and prosodic devices, or indexed
indirectly via speakers' strategic use of particular linguistic signs or interactional patterns in
the speech situation. Stance is something speakers take toward various objects, people,
concepts, ideas and so forth based on their knowledge state, personal belief, identity …