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Publication details [#65715]

Childs, Claire. 2019. Interviewer effects on the phonetic reduction of negative tags, innit? Journal of Pragmatics 142 : 31–46.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Negative tags' phonetic reduction is subject to interviewer effects. Speakers tend to employ more reduced tags with an interviewer who speaks their dialect and who is more familiar. Negative tags are sociolinguistic markers, differing stylistically and socially.