　　社会语言学是研究语言与社会多方面关系的学科，它从社会科学的不同角度，诸如社会学、人类学、民族学、心理学、地理学和历史学等去考察语言。自20世纪60年代发端以来，社会语言学已经逐渐发展成为语言学研究中的一门重要学科，引发众多学者的关注和探究。
　　“牛津社会语言学丛书”由国际社会语言学研究的两位领军人物——英国卡迪夫大学语言与交际研究中心的教授Nicolas Coupland和Adam Jaworski（现在中国香港大学英语学院任教）——担任主编。丛书自2004年由牛津大学出版社陆续出版以来，推出了一系列社会语言学研究的专著，可以说是汇集了这一学科研究的新成果，代表了当今国际社会语言学研究的高水平。
　　我们从中精选出九种，引进出版。所选的这些专著内容广泛，又较贴近我国学者研究的需求，涵盖了当今社会语言学的许多重要课题，如语言变体与语言变化、语言权力与文化认同、语言多元化与语言边缘化、语言与族裔、语言与立场（界位）、语言与新媒体、语用学与礼貌、语言与法律以及社会语言学视角下的话语研究等等。其中既有理论研究，又有方法创新；既有框架分析建构，又有实地考察报告；既体现本学科的前沿和纵深，又展现跨学科的交叉和互补。
　　相信《牛津社会语言学丛书·交际界位研究：社会语言学视角》的引进出版能为从事社会语言学研究的读者带来新的启示，进一步推动我国语言学研究的发展。

Contributors
1 Introduction： The Sociolinguistics of Stance
2 Stance， Style， and the Linguistic Individual
3 Stancein a Colonial Encounter： How Mr Taylor Lost His Footing
4 Stance and Distance： Social Boundaries， Self-LaminaLion， and Metalinguistic Anxiety in White Kenyan Narratives about the African Occult
5 Morallrony and Moral Personhood in Sakapultek Discourse and Culture
6 Stance in a Corsican School： Institutional and Ideological Orders and the Production of Bilingual Subjects
7 From Stance to Style： Gender， Interaction， and Indexicality in Mexican Immigrant Youth Slang
8 Style as Stance： Stance as the Explanation for PatteFns of Sociolinguistic Variation
9 Taking an Elitist Stance： Ideology and the Discursive Production of Social Distinction
10 Attributing Stance in Discourses of Body Shape and Weight Loss
Index

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　　《牛津社会语言学丛书·交际界位研究：社会语言学视角》：
　　his volume is a sociolinguistic exploration of one of the fundamental properties of communication: stancetaking. Stancetaking-taking up a position with Fespect to the form or the content of one's utterance-is central because speaker positionality is built into the act of communication. Although.some forms of speech and writing are more stance-saturated than others， there is no such thing as a completely neutral position vis-et-yis one's lin8uistic productions， because neutrality is itself a stance. To take a simple example， when we choose a verb of saying to introduce speech rep- resented as another's， our choices entail stances toward that speech， from neutrality （"said"） to doubt （"alleged"）; every choice js defined in contrast to other semantic options..By the same token， speech cannot be affectively neutral; we can indeed convey a stance of affective neutrality， but it will of necessity be read in relation to other possible emotional orientations we could have displayed.
　　Epistemic and affective stances are both socially situated and socially consequential， as will be explored below. Speech is always produced and interpreted within a sociolinguistic matrix: that is， speakers make sociolinguistically inflected choices and display orientations to the sociolinguistic meanings associated with forms of speech. Thus sociolinguistics has much to offer to the study of stancetaking.
　　The study of stance in the contemporary literature is wide-ranging and quite heterogeneous （see Englebretson 2007）， and has a robust history in a number of analytic traditions， ranging from corpus-linguistic treatments of authorial stance as connected to particular academic genres， to critical discourse analyses of embedded stances in political， cultural， and persuasive texts， to studies of stancecaking as an interactional and discursive phenomenon， to the analysis of stance-saturated linguistic forms as they are used to reproduce （or chaltenge） social， political， and moral hierarchies in different cultural contexts. The aim of this volume is to map out the sociolinguistics of stance， bringing together analyses that allow us to explore both what the study of stance has to offer sociolinguistic theory， and to define the territory occupied by sociolinguistic approaches to stance as it overlaps with and is distinct from the territory occLrpied by other approaches. This introduction is therefore not intended to be an encyclopedic overview of' research on stance in all of the research traditions in which it has been used; nor is it intended to be an exhaustive review of research on stance in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The goal is at once more modest and more focused: to identify dimensions of stance research that are particularly salient for sociolinguistics， and to situate the sociolinguistic focus on stance in relation to related concepts and currents ot analysis within sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. With respect to these existing analytical traditions， I will argue that the concept of stance is a uniquely productive way of conceptualizing the processes of indexicalization that are the link between individual performance and social meaning.
　　Taken as a whole， the lines of research discussed below are concemed with positionality: how speakers and writers are necessarily engaged in positioning themselves vis-a-vis their words and texts （which are embedded in tustories oflinguistic and textual production）， their imerlocutors and audiences （both actual and virtual/projected/ imagined）， and with respect to a context that they simultaneously respond to and con-struct linguistically. One of the primary goals of a sociolinguistic approach to stance is to explore how the taking up of particular kinds of stances is habitually and convention- ally associated with particular subject positions （social roles and identities; notions of personhood）， and interpersonal and social relationstups Oncluding relations of power） more broadly. Secondly， a sociolinguistics of stance has a crucial role to play in theorizing the relationship between acts of stance'and the sociocultural field: in particular the role these acts play in social （and sociolinguistic） reproduction and change.
　　As an emergent property of interaction， stance is not transparent in either the linguistic or the sociolinguistic， but must be inferred from the empirical study of interactions in social and historical context. A particular linguistic stance （or a set of stances taken over time） may index multiple selves and social identrties; conversely， it may index a single social identity， a personal identity that endures over time （referred to in Johnstone， this volume， as an ethos of self） or a privileged， "core" self （McIntosh， this volume）. Speaker stances are thus performances through which speakers may align or disalign themselves with and/or ironize stereotypical associations with particular linguistic forms; stances may thus express multiple or ambiguous meanings. This makes stance a crucial point of entry in analyses that focus on the complex ways in which speakers manage multiple identities （or multiple aspects of identity）. The focus on process also foregrounds multiplicities in the audiences indexed by particular linguistic practices， and on the social dynamics and consequences of audience reception， uptake， and interpretation.
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前言/序言

　　社会语言学是研究语言与社会多方面关系的学科，它从社会科学的不同角度，诸如社会学、人类学、民族学、心理学、地理学和历史学等去考察语言。自20世纪60年代发端以来，社会语言学已经逐渐发展成为语言学研究中的一门重要学科，引发众多学者的关注和探究。
　　“牛津社会语言学丛书”由国际社会语言学研究的两位领军人物——英国卡迪夫大学语言与交际研究中心的教授Nicolas Coupland和Adam Jaworski（现在中国香港大学英语学院任教）——担任主编。丛书自2004年由牛津大学出版社陆续出版以来，推出了一系列社会语言学研究的专著，可以说是汇集了这一学科研究的最新成果，代表了当今国际社会语言学研究的最高水平。
　　我们从中精选出九种，引进出版。所选的这些专著内容广泛，又较贴近我国学者研究的需求，涵盖了当今社会语言学的许多重要课题，如语言变体与语言变化、语言权力与文化认同、语言多元化与语言边缘化、语言与族裔、语言与立场（界位）、语言与新媒体、语用学与礼貌、语言与法律以及社会语言学视角下的话语研究等等。其中既有理论研究，又有方法创新；既有框架分析建构，又有实地考察报告；既体现本学科的前沿和纵深，又展现跨学科的交叉和互补。
　　相信丛书的引进出版能为从事社会语言学研究的读者带来新的启示，进一步推动我国语言学研究的发展。
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