Stance

Stance may refer to:

Sports

  • Stance (American football), the position an American football player adopts when a play begins
  • Stance (martial arts), the distribution, foot orientation and body positions adopted when attacking, defending, advancing or retreating
  • Stance (yoga), also known as a posture or asana, a body position
  • Stances (tae kwon do), several stances used for different activities
  • Horse stance, a posture in Asian martial arts
  • Karate stances, body positions used to create power, flexibility and movement
  • Wushu stances, a fundamental part of all Chinese martial arts
  • Music

  • Stance (EP), a 1978 record by R. Stevie Moore
  • Stance Punks, a Japanese punk rock band, formed in 1999
  • Other uses

  • political stance, position on an issue, held by for example a person or a party
  • Stance (journal), an academic journal of philosophy
  • Stance (Vranje), a village in the municipality of Vranje, Serbia
  • Stance (linguistics), linguistic expression of judgement or philosophical position
  • Life stance, a person's relation with what they accept as being of ultimate importance
  • List of asanas

    Asanas collectively constitute the physical aspect of worship in ancient Yoga and various stretches and meditative poses of modern Yoga. The poses and stretches are thought to have physical and mental health benefits and can lead to injury in roughly 1 in 20 practitioners a year in the U.S.[8] Different authors or schools of yoga may have different names for an asana. Many asanas have multiple names or one name may refer to multiple asanas.

    Affixes

    Many asana names include the following Sanskrit words as affixes:

    Modern Asanas

    See also

  • Mudra
  • List of mudras
  • References

  • [8] Broad, William J. (7 February 2012). The Science of Yoga The Risks and the Rewards (hardcover) (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 336. ISBN 978-1-4516-4142-4.
  • Stance (linguistics)

    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. Different authors have used the concept of stance to refer to the interpretive framework that is at play in an interaction such as irony, or role-playing, other have used the concept of authorial stance to describe the way in which authors position themselves relative to their own texts, and another group have used the concept of interpersonal stance to describe the way the communicative goals of individual participants shape a communicative interaction. Others, have drawn on Daniel Dennett's concept of the intentional stance to describe the way humans tend to impute intentions and mental states to those with whom they engage in communication.

    See also

  • Appraisal (discourse analysis)
  • References

  • Kockelman, Paul (2004). "Stance and subjectivity". Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14 (2): 127–150.
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