Declarative constant polarity tag questions: A data-driven analysis of their form, meaning and attitudinal uses

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 270-291

  Kimps, Ditte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attitudinal uses; Corpus analysis; Interpersonal modification; Polarity; Tag question

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750994310     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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