stance

Your stance on a particular matter is your attitude to it. Congress had agreed to reconsider its stance on the armed struggle. Synonyms: attitude, stand, position, viewpoint More Synonyms of stance.

When you courageously resist opposing forces, you take - or make - a stand. The metaphor is a military one, with the defending forces refusing to flee from the attacker. Your stance, on the other hand, is just your position - literal or figurative - which may not be particularly militant.

stance noun [C] (POSITION) a particular way of standing: Jenny took up a stance with her feet slightly apart, ready to catch the ball.

In linguistics, stance is the way in which speakers position themselves in relation to the ongoing interaction, in terms of evaluation, intentionality, epistemology or social relations. When a speaker describes an object in a way that expresses their attitude or relation to the object, the speaker is taking a stance.

Whenever you write, you have a certain stance, an attitude toward your topic. For example, you might be objective, critical, passionate, or indifferent. You express that stance through the words you use and the way you approach your subject and audience - in other words, your tone.

In short, stance in academic writing is most simply described as being the attitude of the writer towards the thesis, arguments or evidence that are described in the essay, such as whether the writer agrees or disagrees with a particular piece of information.

Synonyms of stance (noun position, posture) attitude. posture. stand. viewpoint.

the position or bearing of the body while standing: legs spread in a wide stance; the threatening stance of the bull. a mental or emotional position adopted with respect to something: They assumed an increasingly hostile stance in their foreign policy.

Whenever you write, you have a certain stance, an attitude toward your topic. For example, you might be objective, critical, passionate, or indifferent. You express that stance through the words you use and the way you approach your subject and audience - in other words, your tone.

And lead shoulder pointed towards your target. Make sure that both feet are parallel like a set of train tracks. And be sure not to open up so that you're too square. And you're leaving yourself.

Whenever you write, you have a certain stance, an attitude toward your topic. For example, you might be objective, critical, passionate, or indifferent. You express that stance through the words you use and the way you approach your subject and audience - in other words, your tone.

"Stance" literally refers to where you stand - your position, argument or thesis. In reviewing other work, you need to make it clear to the reader if your attitude is positive or negative. Often this decision is influenced by your 'perspective': "Perspective" - the angle or viewpoint you take on the text.