“…Generally, Stivers appears to be more concerned with the participants' distinction between affiliation and alignment (2008, p. 36), while my focus is on distinguishing different ways in which non-alignment is deployed and interpreted. 6 For alternative views on stance, see also Goodwin (1998Goodwin ( , 2006, Kiesling (2005), Johnstone (2009), Lempert (2008Lempert ( , 2009), Ochs and Schieffelin (1989). 7 However, Du Bois focuses mostly on agreement (all but one of his examples in the article are of agreement) and he uses the words ''alignment'' and ''agreement'' interchangeably.…”