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Publication details [#7224]

Oleksy, Wiesaw. 1977. Tags in English and equivalent constructions in Polish. Papers and studies in Contrastive Linguistics 7 : 95–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

declarative tag | performative hypothesis

Language as a subject

English | Polish

Annotation

Declarative tags in English are compared with their translation equivalents in Polish. Communicative functions of tags are accounted for in terms of the performative hypothesis.