Pragmatic Features of Tag Questions in Turkish
Tag Questions are considerably multifunctional in terms of their pragmatic meanings. This study, adopting a descriptive framework, aims to identify and categorize the pragmatic functions of tag questions in Turkish, based on naturally occuring data. It is a corpus based study and draws upon a compre...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Dilbilim araştırmaları 2018-12, Vol.29 (2), p.83-105 |
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Questions are considerably multifunctional in terms of their pragmatic
meanings. This study, adopting a descriptive framework, aims to identify and
categorize the pragmatic functions of tag questions in Turkish, based on
naturally occuring data. It is a corpus based study and draws upon a
comprehensive data, driven from spontaneous speech. METU spoken corpus and 20
hours of natural conversation are used as data. Kappa is used for data analysis
in order to find out inter-rater agreement for the taxonomy of Turkish tag
questions. The resulting typology for Turkish tag questions is mainly similar
to those suggested by Holmes’ (1995) and Tottie and Hoffmann’s (2006) typology.
However, there are also different pragmatic functions of Turkish tag questions other
than those proposed in the literature. Whereas
mocking and justification tags are observed in Turkish, these functions have
not been proposed in languages such as English and Italian. |
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ISSN: | 1300-8552 2587-0939 |
DOI: | 10.18492/dad.395126 |