Publications

Publication details [#13957]

Cheng, Winnie and Martin Warren. 2001. 'She knows more about Hong Kong than you do isn't it': Tags in Hong Kong conversational English. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (7) : 1419–1439.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | intercultural communication | tag | tag question

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper compares the syntactic form and pragmatic use of tags by native and non-native speakers of English. Differences in terms of usage frequency, pragmatic meaning, usage preferences and functions are reported on.