The phrase "attitudinal stance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person's attitude or position regarding a particular issue or topic.
Example: "Her attitudinal stance on climate change reflects her commitment to environmental sustainability."
Alternatives: "attitude position" or "perspective on attitude".
Strategies by which writers frame utterances in such a way as to overtly signal they hold a particular attitudinal stance, but nevertheless refrain from anything directly attitudinal are covered in Fig. 2 by items (5) through to (8).
One purpose of this paper is to argue that instances of attitudinal stance in discourse are dependent on 'associations' attaching to phrases and other linguistic signs due to the way these signs have been used, and are typically used, in other texts.
While the set of features offered here follows Martin and White in recognising these as key strategies or textual arrangements by which attitudinal stance may be indirectly indicated or put into play, it is important to recognise that other mechanisms or discursive strategies may also play a role when a span of text has the potential to invoke an attitudinal value.
The defining psychological processes in mindfulness meditation are the unique attentional focus and attitudinal stance taken by the practitioner.
Ann Hampton Callaway's self-reinvention from a lachrymose piano-bar chanteuse into a jazz swinger progressed a step further on Tuesday evening at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, where she added a new pose to her arsenal of attitudinal stances: pugilistic bossiness.
A second function of worship is the creation and maintenance of views and attitudinal stances that identify the members of the society to each other and in relation to other groups.
These attitudinal stances are not just cognitive, but predelineate something more encompassing, which Dilthey calls "knowledge".
Psychic acts have contents that are related to the objects of the world by means of what Dilthey calls attitudinal stances.
In so doing writers seem to either expect readers/listeners to supply associations which activate attitudinal stances, or to miss such implications altogether.
In effect, the writer creates several clusters of attitudinal stances, creating out of them a type of constellation of stances (c.f. Maton 2014: 168) which act to reinforce their positive axiological charge, i.e. their moral or ethical superiority.
As indicated previously, invoked attitude refers to the ways in which tokens of attitude- that is, implications of attitudinal stances as opposed to relatively more explicitly attitudinal acts- can be made potential for readers in any text.
