Tag Questions in Conversation: A Typology of Their Interactional and Stance Meanings: 83 - Rilegato

Kimps, Ditte

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 9027200432 ISBN 13: 9789027200433

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 2018

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9027200432
• ISBN 13: 9789027200433
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 250
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile