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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

Keywords

interview | language variation | pragmatics | sociolinguistics | tag question

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

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.