The Metadiscursive Formation of Intersubjective Stance in Chomsky's Opinion Articles

This study investigates the concept of stance in political discourse as one of the most important things we do with language which can ascribe values to objects, position social actors with respect to those objects, to calibrate intersubjectively two stances, and to show the values of the sociocultural system of the individual or social group. The study aims at investigating the linguistic basis of Chomsky's opinion articles. Secondly, it aims at describing the communicative strategies of Chomsky's opinion articles. Thirdly, it aims at clarifying the relationship between style and identity construction. The concept of stance adopted in this study involves a complex web of approaches which includes evidentiality, metadiscourse, appraisal, evaluation, and the stance triangle. This complex net is necessary for a discourse semantic account of Chomsky's opinion articles. To do that, a multi perspectival model is developed in the light of the objectives of the study. The model contains two components: strategies of stance realisation and the functions of stance.