Tag questions in conversation : a typology of their interactional and stance meanings / / Ditte Kimps, KU Leuven
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Kimps Ditte
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| Titolo: |
Tag questions in conversation : a typology of their interactional and stance meanings / / Ditte Kimps, KU Leuven
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018] |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 425 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Interrogative |
| English language - Spoken English | |
| English language - Intonation | |
| English language - Sentences | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tag Questions in Conversation |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827098103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in corpus linguistics. . 1388-0373 ; ; Volume 83.