And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it? Tag questions in Irish English
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And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it? Tag questions in Irish English. / Barron, Anne.
Pragmatic markers in Irish English. Hrsg. / Carolina Amador; Elaine Vaughan; Kevin McCafferty. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. S. 203-228 (Pragmatics & Beyond new series; Band 258).Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken › Forschung › begutachtet
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T1 - And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it?
T2 - Tag questions in Irish English
AU - Barron, Anne
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This chapter addresses the lack of systematic research into the use of tag questions in Irish English on a formal and functional level by conducting an exploratory genre-specific analysis of tag questions in service encounters in Irish English. Tag question usage is compared with previous findings from reference corpora of Irish English, British English and American English. The study points to many similarities between tag questions across genre and variety but also shows features which appear particular to present day Irish English, such as the use of sure-tags a higher frequency of the operator BE, a more frequent canonical use of “is it?” tag questions and a high use of interrogative anchors. In addition, the confirmation-eliciting function was employed particularly frequently in the canonical tag questions recorded in the service encounter data. Further research is required to investigate whether this findings was genre-related or varietyrelated. Finally, non-concordant tag uses were found to be uncommon, a finding which contrasts with previous research on Irish English. The paper closes with a plea for an increase in cross-variational analyses of tag questions.
AB - This chapter addresses the lack of systematic research into the use of tag questions in Irish English on a formal and functional level by conducting an exploratory genre-specific analysis of tag questions in service encounters in Irish English. Tag question usage is compared with previous findings from reference corpora of Irish English, British English and American English. The study points to many similarities between tag questions across genre and variety but also shows features which appear particular to present day Irish English, such as the use of sure-tags a higher frequency of the operator BE, a more frequent canonical use of “is it?” tag questions and a high use of interrogative anchors. In addition, the confirmation-eliciting function was employed particularly frequently in the canonical tag questions recorded in the service encounter data. Further research is required to investigate whether this findings was genre-related or varietyrelated. Finally, non-concordant tag uses were found to be uncommon, a finding which contrasts with previous research on Irish English. The paper closes with a plea for an increase in cross-variational analyses of tag questions.
KW - English
KW - Language Studies
U2 - 10.1075/pbns.258.09bar
DO - 10.1075/pbns.258.09bar
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-90-272-5663-8
T3 - Pragmatics & Beyond new series
SP - 203
EP - 228
BT - Pragmatic markers in Irish English
A2 - Amador, Carolina
A2 - Vaughan, Elaine
A2 - McCafferty, Kevin
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
ER -