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Publication details [#7309]

Östman, Jan-Ola. 1981. A functional approach to English tags. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 13 : 3–16.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastive method | tag

Language as a subject

English | Finnish | Swedish

Annotation

Tags are said to perform a number of functions; a theoretical explanation for this divergence is suggested, on the basis of a contrastive analysis of English tags and their counterparts in Swedish and Finnish.