This article is posted by the author on a private Academia.edu page, in accordance with the publisher’s policies: “If you post the PDF on your website, please ensure that you correctly cite LASI, and the Publisher (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), and include a link from the website to the home page of LASI at Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118611463) .” Link to abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi139/abstract DOI DOI: 10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi139 Citation (MLA style) Bassiouney, Reem. 2015. “Stance-Taking.” The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Ed. Karen Tracey, Cornelia Ilie, and Todd Sandel. Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015. Wiley Online Library. Web. [DATE]