Tag Questions in Conversation : A Typology of Their Interactional and Stance Meanings
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| Title: | Tag Questions in Conversation : A Typology of Their Interactional and Stance Meanings |
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| Description: | This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English tag questions. Compared to existing descriptions, the proposed typology is novel in three ways. Firstly, whereas almost all existing typologies are single-layered classifications, the functions of tag questions are categorized into two parallel dimensions of interpersonal meaning: the speech function and the stance layer. Secondly, semantic generalizations are proposed for clusters of grammatical, intonational and conversational properties. Thirdly, the bottom-up description is based on a sizeable amount of authentic, spontaneous conversations, which are analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively. |
| Authors: | Ditte Kimps |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | English language--Spoken English, English language--Interrogative, English language--Intonation, English language--Sentences |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English tag questions. Compared to existing descriptions, the proposed typology is novel in three ways. Firstly, whereas almost all existing typologies are single-layered classifications, the functions of tag questions are categorized into two parallel dimensions of interpersonal meaning: the speech function and the stance layer. Secondly, semantic generalizations are proposed for clusters of grammatical, intonational and conversational properties. Thirdly, the bottom-up description is based on a sizeable amount of authentic, spontaneous conversations, which are analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027200433 9789027264336 |
