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Publication details [#48649]

Davidse, Kristin and Ditte Kimps. 2008. Illocutionary force and conduciveness in imperative constant polarity tag questions: A typology. Text & Talk 28 (6) : 699–722.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

function | illocution | tag question | typology

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Building on McGregor's (1997) general approach to tag questions, this paper argues that their subtypes can be classified in terms of illocutionary force and conduciveness, two interpersonal functions.