Affiliation:
1. Coastal Carolina University
Abstract
Abstract
This paper offers an analysis of well-prefaced constructed dialogue as a stance-taking resource
in written discourse on abortion. Drawing from four corpora collected from editorials, blogs, Twitter, and Reddit, I demonstrate
that writers use the discourse marker well to indicate a stance of disalignment and convey negative attitudinal
information when there is tension between the writer’s beliefs and those expressed in the constructed dialogue; the discourse
marker allows the writer to position and align themself to construct a specific identity that reinforces a positive-self,
negative-other evaluation.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Philosophy,Language and Linguistics