In this talk, I will introduce a framework for coding speaker stance (i.e., the way individuals position themselves towards an interaction) that I developed with colleagues from the University of Toronto. Our framework, which combines insights from variationist sociolinguistics and pragmatics, is based on pragmatic tests that offer a replicable way of capturing an interactional phenomenon such as stance quantitatively. Drawing on two case studies of complementizer (that) – i.e., the variation between overt that and zero in sentences such as I think (that) linguistic variation is fun – I discuss challenges and opportunities of using this framework, as well as its implications for the study of language and social meaning.