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Publication details [#42791]

Romero Trillo, Jesús and Dolores Ramírez Verdugo. 2005. The pragmatic function of intonation in L2 discourse: English tag questions used by Spanish speakers. Intercultural Pragmatics 2 (2) : 151–168.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | intonation | L2-acquisition | pragmatic function | tag question

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This study of the pragmatic role of intonation in second language discourse, shows that there are significant differences between native and non-native English speakers in tone and pitch accent choice, which may lead to communicative misunderstanding.