Preschoolers' production of tag questions and adherence to the polarity-contrast principle

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Ann Weeks
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Rahma Aulia Indra ◽  
Rina Marnita ◽  
Ayumi Ayumi

This article concerns with the characteristics of the language of three British female Youtubers. It is aimed in particular to find out women's linguistic features in their language based on Lakoff's theory (1975) and the functions of each features according to Holme's theory (2013). The result of the study reveals  seven women's linguistic features  in the youtubers' language. They are (1) lexical hedges or fillers, (2) tag questions, (3) „empty‟ adjectives, (4) precise color terms, (5) intensifiers, (6) „superpolite‟ forms, and (7) emphatic stress. Among these features, the intensifiers. appears as the dominant one. The study also shows that each feature has specific function.


2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnel Tottie ◽  
Sebastian Hoffmann

2017 ◽  
Vol 188 (12) ◽  
pp. 1665-1674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Behzadnia ◽  
Mehdi B. Mehrani
Keyword(s):  

ELT Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-318
Author(s):  
D. Baker
Keyword(s):  

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Hosman ◽  
Susan A. Siltanen

2010 ◽  
pp. 293-304
Author(s):  
John Algeo
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2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-110
Author(s):  
Fariba Ramazani Sarbandi ◽  
Giti Taki ◽  
Pakzad Yousefian ◽  
Mohamad Reza Farangi

This study focusing on physician-patient interactions aimed to find out whetherphysicians’ gender and experience influence Persian doctor-patient interactions. Sopower strategies in physician-patient interactions were extracted and categorized toexplore the relationship between physicians’ gender and experience and power strategies.Fieldwork was conducted in clinics and hospitals of Rafsanjan city in Iran. One hundredphysician-patient consultations were audiotaped and transcribed during 2011-2012.Woods’ (2006) view was used to examine four strategies of power and knowledge ontheir talk. The findings pointed out the importance of investigating discourse of medicinein order to improve medical consultations, especially physician-patient interactions.Our study confirmed some previous assertions that physician-patient interactionswere asymmetrical. Physicians controlled and dominated the medical consultations byquestioning, interruptions, directive statements and tag questions. The analysis of the datarevealed that all power strategies were applied in Iranian physician-patient interactions.The results of Chi-Square tests indicated that there was a significant relationship betweenpower strategies and physicians’ experience and gender. It was concluded that the femaleand inexperienced physicians tended to control consultations by questioning, interruption,directives and tag questions more than the male and experienced physicians.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radina Mohamad Deli

This paper examined the forms that interrogatives and tag questions can take when used by young Malaysian speakers of English language in oral communication. It offers a description of the features for both question forms as produced by the respondents compared to those of Singapore English (SE) and Standard British English (SBE). The influence of domains and the issue of mother tongue interference in relation to the subjects’ usage of such features will also be investigated. Data were obtained through interviews with 19 Malaysian English (ME) speakers from three major ethnic groups in Peninsular Malaysia and via the recording of six conversations. The results showed various distinctive forms and features of questions in ME used by the speakers. Their usage is found to have a certain link to the domains of conversation. Further analysis revealed that mother tongue interference at the grammatical level, particularly in the case of Malay and Cantonese, plays a major role in determining the structure of ME interrogatives and tag questions as well as the subjects’ unvarying use of the rising intonation as regards the latter. As a result of this interference, ME tag questions used are found to be confined to four forms whilst both the structure of wh- and polar interrogatives experience reduction in the system of tense, auxiliary and operator when used by the subjects.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ditte Kimps ◽  
Kristin Davidse ◽  
Gerard O’Grady*
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