Tag questions across Irish English and British English: A corpus analysis of form and function
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In: Multilingua, Vol. 34, No. 4, 01.07.2015, p. 495-525.
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T1 - Tag questions across Irish English and British English
T2 - A corpus analysis of form and function
AU - Barron, Anne
AU - Pandarova, Irina
AU - Muderack, Karoline
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 by De Gruyter Mouton.
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - The present study, situated in the area of variational pragmatics, contrasts tag question (TQ) use in Ireland and Great Britain using spoken data from the Irish and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE). Analysis is on the formal and functional level and also investigates form-functional relationships. Findings reveal many similarities in the use of TQs across the varieties. They also point, however, to a lower use of TQs in Irish English and in a range of variety-preferential features on both the formal and functional levels. The paper shows how an in-depth analysis of form-function relations together with a fine-tuned investigation of sub-functions gives an insight into formal preferences.
AB - The present study, situated in the area of variational pragmatics, contrasts tag question (TQ) use in Ireland and Great Britain using spoken data from the Irish and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE). Analysis is on the formal and functional level and also investigates form-functional relationships. Findings reveal many similarities in the use of TQs across the varieties. They also point, however, to a lower use of TQs in Irish English and in a range of variety-preferential features on both the formal and functional levels. The paper shows how an in-depth analysis of form-function relations together with a fine-tuned investigation of sub-functions gives an insight into formal preferences.
KW - Language Studies
KW - tag questions
KW - Irish English
KW - British English
KW - variational pragmatics
KW - regional pragmatic variation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84935134153&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/multi-2014-0099
DO - 10.1515/multi-2014-0099
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 34
SP - 495
EP - 525
JO - Multilingua
JF - Multilingua
SN - 0167-8507
IS - 4
ER -