Stance and Stancetaking:A Perspective From Critical Cognitive Linguistics
The paper explores the cognitive mechanism of stance and stancetaking,their nature and connotation,and their legitimation and persuasion as well as their classification and linguistic re-sources.Specifically speaking,the paper expounds the following four aspects:(1)It makes the point that the epistemic vigilance in human reasoning is the cognitive mechanism behind stance and stancetaking and thus on its basis defines their scope;(2)Utilizing the stance triangle and the Stancetaking Model,the paper elaborates the nature and connotation of stance and stancetaking,emphasizing that the field of study not only involves subjectivity and more importantly intersub-jectivity;(3)The paper discusses the two major and important functions of stancetaking:legiti-mation and persuasion;(4)The paper investigates the classification of stancetaking:effective stance strategies and epistemic stance strategies,and briefly discusses the linguistic resources ex-pressing these strategies.Finally,the paper points out that the future research needs to use the empirical methods from corpus linguistics and psychology and adopts the perspective of"trian-gulation"to explore the acceptance and responses of stancetaking from listeners and readers.
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