Abstract In this contribution, we offer a first exploration of stance expressions in Flemish Sign Language (VGT). Biber and Finegan (1989) define as the expression feelings, attitudes, judgments, commitments, assessments. The few studies focusing on signed languages have shown that can be expressed by various structures mechanisms such lexical signs, manual gestures (e.g., Palm Up gestures) emb...

Weoffer an overviewof someways of examining the connections between stance and rationality, by surveying recent work on four central topics: (a) the very idea of a stance, (b) the relations between stances and voluntarism, (c) the metaphysics and epistemology that emerge once stances are brought to center stage, and (d) the role that emotions and phenomenology play in the empirical stance.