This article examines the text-metrical ("poetic") organization of epistemic stance-taking in discourse, focusing on epistemic stance in a form of argumentation, Tibetan Buddhist 'debate' (rtsod pa) at Sera Monastery in India. Emergent text-metrical structures in discourse are shown to reflexively map utterance-level propositional stance into larger-scale, fractionally congruent models of interactional stance. In charting the movement from epistemic stance to interactional stance by way of poetic structure, the article argues for and clarifies the place of poetics in the study of stance.
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ABSTRACT 569 INTRODUCTION 569 TEXT-METRICAL ("POETIC") PERFORMATIVITY 571 AN EXERCISE IN THE POETICS OF STANCE IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST 'DEBATE' (rtsod pa) 575 Auxiliary verbs as resources 577 Stance and counter-stance in the opening moment 579 DISCUSSION 584 NOTES 586 REFERENCES 589
