[1] Different authors have used the concept of stance to refer to the interpretive framework that is at play in an interaction such as irony, or role-playing.
Others have used the concept of authorial stance to describe the way in which authors position themselves relative to their own texts, and another group have used the concept of interpersonal stance to describe the way the communicative goals of individual participants shape a communicative interaction.
[2]: 129 [3] Stance can be used to attribute personal value to an object by way of describing how the speaker feels about it.
However, Speakers B and C are still taking a stance because they present information that shows their relation to the object.
[4] Three types of stance are often distinguished: Epistemic stance is the expression (through verbal or other means) of a relative difference between interactants' relation to some knowledge (i.e. a doctor has the epistemic authority to answer medical questions),[5] while deontic stance is the expression of relative strength compared to another interactant to make decisions, such as requesting or requiring that someone performs a certain task.