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Publication details [#60180]

Barron, Anne, Irina Pandarova and Karoline Muderack. 2015. Tag questions across Irish English and British English: A corpus analysis of form and function. Multilingua 34 (4) : 495–525.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | function | language variation | pragmatics | tag question

Language as a subject

English, British | English, Irish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper in variational pragmatics, opposes tag question (TQ) use in Ireland and Great Britain. Results indicate a lower application of TQs in Irish English and in a series of variety-preferential characteristics on both formal and functional planes.