This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted,
theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive …

In this paper I argue that stance in discourse is not the transparent linguistic packaging of
'internal states' of knowledge, but rather emerges from dialogic interaction between …

Geographic mobility and new patterns of social interaction associated with the globalizing
new economy have resulted at the same time in dialect leveling (Milroy 2002; Trudgill 1986) …

One of the most important things we do with words is take a stance. Stance has the power to
assign value to objects of interest, to position social actors with respect to those objects, to …

During the initial few years of the twenty-first century, scholarship in linguistics and related
disciplines has witnessed a notable upsurge of interest in stance. Several published …

This paper aims to shed light on the question of how interactants use the concurrent
organizations of assessments and three different gaze patterns as resources for stance …

My overall starting-point in this paper is an epistemic stance marker that has been strangely
neglected in linguistic research so far, namely I guess. Here, I draw from evidence provided …

Stance has been used increasingly as an important theoretical and analytical term in the
study of language and social interaction. Most importantly, it has been deployed as a way to …

Fictive Interaction Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company HUMAN P R C ESSI N G C OG
NI TI VE Fictive Interaction The conversation frame in thought, language, and discourse Esther …

Describes how conversation works, providing a systematic and exhaustive account of the
structure of spoken discourse and the diverse strategies speakers use to have a …