ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STANCE
Via French from Italian stanza place for standing, from Latin stāns, from stāre to stand.
WHAT DOES STANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of stance in the English dictionary
The first definition of stance in the dictionary is the manner and position in which a person or animal stands. Other definition of stance is the posture assumed when about to play the ball, as in golf, cricket, etc. Stance is also general emotional or intellectual attitude.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STANCE»
The term «stance» is very widely used and occupies the
13.662 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «STANCE»
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stance.
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.
I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance.
It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling!
Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STANCE»
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stance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stance : Sociolinguistic Perspectives: Sociolinguistic ...
This volume maps out the terrain of existing sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological research on stance, synthesizes how it relates to existing theoretical orientations, and identifies a framework for future research.
Alexandra Jaffe Professor of Linguistics CSU Long Beach, 2009
The Intentional Stance, along with these works, is a Bradford Book.
Daniel Clement Dennett, 1989
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Epistemic
Stance in English Conversation: A Description of ...
This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English.
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Stance in Talk: A Conversation Analysis of Mandarin Final ...
Guided by the methodology of conversation analysis (CA), this book explores how participants in Mandarin conversation display stance in the unfolding development of action and interaction, and, in particular, how this is accomplished ...
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Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres
This text brings together a range of perspectives on two of the most important and contested concepts in applied linguistics: stance and voice.
Ken Hyland, Carmen Sancho Guinda, 2012
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Evidentiality and Epistemological
Stance: Narrative Retelling
This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling.
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Evaluation in Text : Authorial
Stance and the Construction ...
- ;This is an accessible and wide-ranging account of current research in one of the most central aspects of discourse analsysis: evalution in and of written and spoken language.
Susan Hunston, Geoffrey Thompson, 2000
This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations.
Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world’s foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a program for renewal of the empiricist tradition.
Bas C. van Fraassen, 2008
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Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the ...
Helping ethnographers get closer to the experiences of the people with whom they work, this book will be of immediate interest to anyone in ethnomusicology, folklore, popular music studies, anthropology, or performance studies.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STANCE»
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stance is used in the context of the following news items.
APNewsBreak: USOC asks Mass. gov for stance on Boston '24
APNewsBreak: USOC asks Mass. gov for stance on Boston '24. Saved. Save Article; My Saved Items · Print Email. Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
Fed takes tough stance on bond liquidity, downplays market fears
The Fed's assertive stance is setting the stage for more volatile fixed income markets and where liquidity droughts could be the price of doing business in bond ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
Rihanna Takes a Stance
“I've had a great relationship with Stance for a long time and I am happy to be working with them on such a fun and creative project,” she said, according to ... «BET, Jul 15»
Rihanna Reveals New, Limited Edition Collaboration With 'Stance …
We did not see this coming! Rihanna just revealed her collaboration with 'Stance' socks — and while we totally didn't expect RiRi to foray into the fashionable ... «Hollywood Life, Jul 15»
Ohio court: Minister changes stance on gay weddings
TOLEDO, Ohio –— A northern Ohio minister who wouldn't marry a gay couple while on duty at a county courthouse has apparently changed his stance. «LGBTQ Nation, Jul 15»
WA premier softens stance on Uber
The West Australian government is softening its stance on ride-sharing service Uber, but won't drop prosecutions against drivers accused of breaking the law, ... «Sky News Australia, Jul 15»
Javid criticises CBI for pro-European stance
Sajid Javid on Monday rebuked big business over its pro-European stance, suggesting the CBI's enthusiasm for continued EU membership could hamper the ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
Gunn shows political courage with flag stance
Political conventional wisdom says Gunn has little to gain and much to lose by taking such a stance. He certainly has no reason to jump into the middle of this ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jun 15»
CEA questions RBI's monetary policy stance,says rates too high
"So, is the stance of current (monetary) policy appropriate? Of course, that is difficult to say but at the very least, there needs to be more analytical discussion. «Business Standard, Jun 15»
Neeson backs Clooney's cosmetic surgery stance
But hearthrobs George Clooney and Liam Neeson have this week spoken out against the trend. Irish actor Neeson backed Clooney's stance on cosmetic ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»