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Acknowledgements Preface Ç°ÑÔ Tables Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Objectives 1.3 Outline 2 Stance and Stance Adverbs 2.1 Notion of"stance" 2.2 Functions of stance 2.3 Previous studies on stance adverbs 2.4 Definition of "stance" in this study 2.5 The classification of stance adverbs in this study 2.6 Summary 3 Research Design 3.1 The analytical framework 3.2 The corpora to be used 3.3 The software tools to be used 3.4 Data processing 3.5 Summary 4 Frequency Distribution of Stance Adverbs in CLEC 4.1 Overall data profiles 4.2 Data of the three subcategories 4.3 Clausal position distribution 4.4 Data of major patterns 4.5 Summary 5 Patterns and Features: Certainty Epistemic Adverbs 5.1 Salient expression of high certainty 5.2 Certainty stance-taking concerning writer- and reader-mentions 5.3 Preference for the clausal-initial position 5.4 Patterns in the clausal-medial position 5.5 Summary 6 Patterns and Features: Likelihood Epistemic Adverbs 6.1 Colloquial expression of likelihood epistemic stance 6.2 Likelihood stance-taking concerning reader- and writer-mention 6.3 Clausal-initial preference and its functions 6.4 Prominence of the pattern will + Adv 6.5 Inflexibility of likelihood stance expression 6.6 Summary 7 Patterns and Features: Attitude and Style Stance Adverbs 7.1 Patterns and functions of attitude stance adverbs 7.2 Patterns of style stance adverbs and their functions 7.3 Summary 8 Conclusions and Implications 8.1 Summary of this study 8.2 Causal factors for stance expressions 8.3 Implications for EFL language pedagogy