Tag Questions in Conversation: A Typology of Their Interactional and Stance Meanings - Couverture rigide

Kimps, Ditte

 
9789027200433: Tag Questions in Conversation: A Typology of Their Interactional and Stance Meanings
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027200432 ISBN 13 : 9789027200433
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2018

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027200432
ISBN 13 
9789027200433
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
268
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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