Pragmatic Features of Tag Questions in Turkish
Abstract
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
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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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Arif Yildizli
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Ufuk Üniversitesi
0000-0002-4897-9567
Türkiye
Zeynep Doyuran
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 28, 2018
Submission Date
February 15, 2018
Acceptance Date
December 21, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 29 Number: 2
