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UNIVERSITY of OULU
STANCE - Interactional practices and linguistic resources of stance taking in spoken English

Publications

Here is a list of relevant publications by project researchers and research associates.

Elise Kärkkäinen

  • Kärkkäinen, E. in preparation. Digressing with a stance: Sequential, linguistic and embodied practices of stance taking. In Kärkkäinen, E. and J. W. Du Bois (eds.) Stance and Affect in Interaction: Sequential and Dialogic Perspectives. Submitted as a special issue to Text & Talk.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. and J. W. Du Bois (eds.) in preparation. Stance and Affect in Interaction: Sequential and Dialogic Perspectives. Submitted as a special issue to Text & Talk.
  • Kärkkäinen, E., M.-L. Sorjonen and M.-L. Helasvuo 2007. Discourse structure. In Shopen, T. (ed.) Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 301-371.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. 2007. The role of I guess in conversational stancetaking. In Englebretson, R. (ed.) Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 183-219.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. 2006. Stance-taking in conversation: From subjectivity to intersubjectivity. Text & Talk 26-6, 699-731.
  • Kuure, L., E. Kärkkäinen and M. Saarenkunnas (eds.) 2005. Kieli ja sosiaalinen toiminta. Language and Social Action. AFinLA Yearbook 2005, no. 63. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylä University Press.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. 2005. Paikallinen kielellinen rutiini: I guess asennoitumisen jäsentäjänä. (A local linguistic routine: I guess as on organizer of stance-taking activity.) In Kuure, L., E. Kärkkäinen and M. Saarenkunnas (eds.), Kieli ja sosiaalinen toiminta. Language and Social Action. AFinLA Yearbook 2005, no. 63. 109-126.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. 2004. Interactional practices and linguistic resources of stance taking in spoken English. In Östman, J.-O. (ed.) PIC Bulletin 7. University of Helsinki. 45-48.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. 2003. Epistemic Stance in English Conversation. A Description of Its Interactional Functions, with a Focus on I think. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. 2003. 'Is she vicious or dense?' Dialogic practices of stance taking in spoken English. In Nakayama, T., T. Ono and H. Tao (eds), Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics 12. Recent Studies in Empirical Approaches to Language. University of California, Santa Barbara. 47-65.
  • Kärkkäinen, E. 2002. Asennoituminen keskustelun osanottajien yhteistoimintana. (Stance taking as joint activity between participants.) In Mauranen, A. and L. Tiittula (eds.) Kieli yhteiskunnassa - yhteiskunta kielessä. AFinLA Yearbook 2002, No. 60. 85-100.

John W. Du Bois

  • Du Bois, J.W. in preparation. Emerging emotions: When affect is a stance. In Kärkkäinen, E. and J. W. Du Bois (eds.) Stance and Affect in Interaction: Sequential and Dialogic Perspectives. Submitted as a special issue to Text & Talk.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 2007. The stance triangle. In Englebretson, R. (ed.) Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 139-182.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 2004. Stance and intersubjectivity. Paper read at the 'Stance Taking in Discourse: Subjectivity in Interaction' symposium at Rice University, Houston, TX. April 3.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 2003a. Dialogic syntax. Invited talk at Langnet graduate school seminar, University of Oulu, Sept 10.
  • Du Bois, J.W. 2003b. Resonance and structure mapping. Invited talk at seminar "Stance taking, dialogic syntax and interaction", University of Oulu, Sept 4.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 2003c. Stance and consequence in interaction. Invited talk at Langnet graduate school seminar, University of Oulu, Sept 11.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 2003d. The stance differential. Invited talk at seminar "Stance taking, dialogic syntax and interaction", University of Oulu, Sept 8.
  • Du Bois, J.W. 2003e. Writing in speaking: The dialogic stance of prior text in the present context. Invited talk at seminar "Stance taking, dialogic syntax and interaction", University of Oulu, Sept 3.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 2002a. Stance & consequence. Paper given at the American Anthropological Association Conference in New Orleans, Nov 21.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 2002b. Stance and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction. Paper given at Linguistics Colloquium, University of California at Santa Barbara, April 11.
  • Du Bois, J.W. 2002c. Stance: Intersubjectivity and the pragmatic differential in dialogic interaction. Paper given at LISO seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb 28.
  • Du Bois, J. W. 1999. Pragmatic differential in the structure of dialogic interaction. Paper given at LISO seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov.

Sandra A. Thompson

  • Couper-Kuhlen, E. and S. Thompson 2005. A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: concessive repair. In Hakulinen A. & S. Selting (eds.) Syntax and Lexis in Conversation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Ford, C., B. Fox and S. Thompson 2003. Social interaction and grammar. In Tomasello, M. (ed.), The New Psychology of Language, Vol. 2. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 119-143.
  • Thompson, S. 2003. Functional grammar. In Frawley, W. (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ford, C., B. Fox and S. Thompson 2002. Constituency and the grammar of turn increments. In Ford, C., B. Fox, and S. Thompson (eds), The Language of Turn and Sequence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 14-38.
  • Thompson, S. 2002. 'Object complements' and conversation: Towards a realistic account. Studies in Language 26.1: 125-164.
  • Thompson, S. A. and P. J. Hopper 2001. Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation. In Bybee, J. and P. Hopper (eds.), Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 27-60.

Pentti Haddington

  • Haddington, P. 2007. Positioning and alignment as activities of stancetaking in news interviews. In Englebretson, R. (ed.) Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 283-317.
  • Haddington, P. 2006. The organization of gaze and assessments as resources for stance taking. Text & Talk 26(3), 281-328.
  • Haddington, P. 2006. Identity and stance taking in news interviews: A case study. In Lassen, I., Strunck, J. and Vestergaard, T. (eds.), Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten Critical Studies. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 69-95.
  • Haddington, P. 2005. The linguistic NEG + POS pattern and two action combinations as resources for interviewee stance taking in news interviews. In Kuure, L., E. Kärkkäinen and M. Saarenkunnas (eds.), Kieli ja sosiaalinen toiminta - Language and Social Action. AFinLA Yearbook. 85-107.
  • Haddington, P. 2005. The Intersubjectivity of Stance Taking in Talk-in-interaction. Oulu: Oulu University Press.
  • Haddington, P. 2004. Stance taking in news interviews. SKY Journal of Linguistics 17, 101-142.
  • Haddington, P. 2002. Congruent Gaze Points, Mutual Gaze and Evasive Gaze: Some Ways of Using Gaze in Stance-taking Sequences in a Conversation. In Kärkkäinen, E., J. Haines and T. Lauttamus (eds.) 2002. Studia Linguistica et Litteraria Septentrionalia. Studies Presented to Heikki Nyyssönen. Oulu: Oulu University Press. 107-125.

Tiina Keisanen

  • Keisanen, T. in preparation. The unexpected in interaction: Affective turns in third position. In Kärkkäinen, E. and J. W. Du Bois (eds.) Stance and Affect in Interaction: Sequential and Dialogic Perspectives. Submitted as a special issue to Text & Talk.
  • Keisanen, T. 2007. Stancetaking as an interactional activity: Challenging the prior speaker. In Englebretson, R. (ed.) Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 253-281.
  • Keisanen, T. 2006. Patterns of Stance Taking: Negative Yes/no Interrogatives and Tag Questions in American English Conversation. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis B71. Oulu: Oulu University Press. Available in electronic form at http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514280393/
  • Keisanen, T. 2002. Keskustelijoiden asennoitumiseen käyttämiä vuorovaikutuksellisia ja kielellisiä keinoja naurua sisältävissä sekvensseissä. [Interactional and linguistic practices of stance taking in sequences with laughter in conversational American English] In Mauranen, A. and L. Tiittula (eds.) Kieli yhteiskunnassa - yhteiskunta kielessä. AFinLA Yearbook 2002, No. 60. 101-119.

Mirka Rauniomaa

  • Rauniomaa, M. 2008. Recovery through repetition. Returning to prior talk and taking a stance in American-English and Finnish conversations. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis B85. Oulu: Oulu University Press. Available in electronic form at http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9789514289248/
  • Rauniomaa, M. 2007. Stance markers in spoken Finnish: minun mielestä and minusta in assessments. In Englebretson, R. (ed.) Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 221-252.
  • Rauniomaa, M. 2004. Kongressbericht: 2nd EuroConference on Interactional Linguistics. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 3 CV, 391-392.

Maarit Niemelä

  • Niemelä, M. in preparation. Resonating linguistic and embodied actions in conversational storytelling. Doctoral dissertation.
  • Niemelä, M. & M. Rauniomaa. Submitted. Confessions of a serial storyteller: Recipient design in (re)tellings. Narrative Inquiry.
  • Niemelä, M. Submitted. Resonance in conversational second stories: A dialogic resource for stance taking. In Kärkkäinen,, E. and J. W. Du Bois (eds.) Stance and Affect in Interaction: Sequential and Dialogic Perspectives. Special issue of Text & Talk.
  • Niemelä, M. Submitted. The reporting space in conversational storytelling: Orchestrating all semiotic channels for taking a stance. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Niemelä, M. 2005. Voiced direct reported speech in conversational storytelling. SKY Journal of Linguistics 18.

Robert Englebretson

  • Englebretson, R. (ed.) 2007. Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Englebretson, R. 2007. Grammatical resources for social purposes: Some aspects of stancetaking in colloquial Indonesian conversation. In Englebretson, R. (ed.). 69-110.
  • Englebretson, R. 2003. Searching for Structure. The Problem of Complementation in Colloquial Indonesian Conversation. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Co-authored articles

  • Kärkkäinen, E., T. Keisanen, M. Rauniomaa, M. Niemelä and P. Haddington 2004. Not just old hat: Stance as an emergent, contingent and dialogic concept. PIC Bulletin 7, 45-59. University of Helsinki.