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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
More Than a Summary: Stance-Shift Analysis
Authors : Boyd Davis, Vivian Lord, Peyton Mason
Published in: Intelligence and Security Informatics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Our corpus-based, multivariate approach to the analysis of text is keyed to the interaction of two dozen language features that have shown potential for assessing affect, agency, evaluation and intention. They include public and private or perceptual verbs; several categories of adverbs, modals, pronouns and discourse markers. The language features, which we use as variables, make up what text and corpus linguists define as
stance
. Stance is how people use their words to signal confidence or doubt, appraisal or judgment [1] about topics, values, audiences, situations, or viewpoints. Speakers construct different personae out of the ways they use language features that signal modality, evidentiality, hedging, attribution, concession, or consequentiality.