Tag Questions in British and American English

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 283-311

  Tottie, Gunnel ^a   Hoffmann, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age grading; corpus linguistics; differences between British and American English; discourse; language change; negation; polarity; retrieval methods; spoken interaction; tag questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949215297     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424206294369     Document Type: Article

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