Abstract
This paper presents a brief overview of stance language and the numerous linguistic phenomena included in the notion of stance. The paper also comments on the relation of corpus linguistics (CL) methodology and the study of stance devices in discourse. Although some of the drawbacks of this methodology are identified, the view in this study is very positive because CL allows the unparalleled analysis, interrogation and indexing of large amounts of texts only achievable through computing means. This introductory paper concerning the description of stance language and CL seeks to give context for the four articles contained in this special issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics. These contributions come to demonstrate the validity of CL methodology for the study of hedging, evaluation, style, and modality in different registers and specialised domains.
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Introduction to stance languageFrancisco Alonso Almeida Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / SpainAbstract – This paper presents a brief overview of stance language and the numerous linguistic phenomena included in the notion of stance
The expression of stance is believed to be the motivation behind some linguistic processes of variation and change in the evolution of languages, as pointed out in Méndez-Naya (2008), and in the evolution of their textual genres
Defour’s (2008) study on the pragmatic meanings of as a discourse marker based on historical evidence reveals that one of its functions is to indicate the speaker’s subjective stance towards the proposition manifested. (Inter)subjective reasoning is strongly related to the evidentiary information concerning the truth of a proposition
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Introduction to stance languageFrancisco Alonso Almeida Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / SpainAbstract – This paper presents a brief overview of stance language and the numerous linguistic phenomena included in the notion of stance. Keywords – stance, evaluation, corpus linguistics, modality, opinion This introduction succinctly describes the concept of ‘stance’ and the use of Corpus Linguistics (CL) methodology for its study.
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