English Language A-Level
Analysis of stance and positioning
What Analysis of stance and positioning means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Identifying the attitude a text conveys, the language choices that create it, and how the writer positions the reader.
Topics that use Analysis of stance and positioning
- Language discourses (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Attitudes to language diversity and change
- Construction of authorial identity and stance
- Language discourses
- Language discourses and ideological debate
- Non-specialist audiences
- Reader positioning and persuasion
- Representation of language and language users
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