Tag questions in conversation : a typology of their interactional and stance meanings
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Tag questions in conversation : a typology of their interactional and stance meanings
（Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 83）
J. Benjamins Pub., c2018
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Revised version of the author's Ph.D. thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and indexes
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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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