57 Texas Linguistics Forum 54:57-71 Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium About Language and Society – Austin April 15-17, 2011 © Tseng 2011 DJ Stances, Station Goals: Performing Identity on a Bilingual Arizona Radio Show 24 Amelia Tseng Georgetown University 1. Background Speakers share and invite others to participate in their understanding of the world through linguistic acts of self-projection (Le Page & Tabouret-Keller, 1985, p. 181). A productive approach to this process is Bucholtz and Hall‘s (2005) tri -part positionality principle model of levels of identity construction, which encompasses temporary, interaction-specific stances, local, community-specific positions, and macro-level demographic identity categories (p. 592). The present paper examines stance and its relationship to the other levels described by Bucholtz & Hall (2005). Stance is commonly defined as ―a linguistic act which is at the same time a social act‖ (DuBois, 2007, p. 141) which expresses a speaker‘s ―relationship to their talk … (or) their relationship to their interlocutors‖ (Kiesling, 2009, p. 172). By taking stances and accepting or rejecting previous stances, ―social actors simultaneously evaluate objects, position themselves and others), and align with other subjects, with respect to any salient dimension of the sociocultural field‖ (DuBois, 2007, p. 163). Stances are cumulative and recursive. Since participants monitor speaker responsibility for individual stances (Hill & Irvine 1993), these in turn may serve as references for future stances. This may take place within a single interaction (DuBois, 2007), over multiple interactions (Rauniomaa 2003), or intertextually (Damari, 2010). Stances therefore become available as performative resources for ―speakers (to) position themselves and others as particular kinds of people‖ (Bucholtz & Hall, 2005, p. 595). Finally, stances entail synthesis of linguistic acts and shared social value through ―dimensions of sociocultural value which are referenced by the evaluative act. … Via specific acts of stancetaking, value can be focused and directed at a precise target, as locally relevant values are activated to frame the significance of participant actions‖ 24 I am grateful to Rob Podesva, Anastasia Nylund, and the Georgetown Language and Society Discussion Group for their suggestions during the initial stages of this paper. Deep thanks are also due to Michael Silverstein, Elizabeth Keating, and the audience at SALSA 2011 for their insightful feedback which greatly strengthened this paper. Finally, thanks are due to Otto Santa Ana, Rebecca Rubin Damari, Marisa Fond, and Jermay Jamsu for their comments during the revisions process. Any remaining errors are entirely my own.