0 a phrase such as ‘isn’t it?’ or ‘does he?’ that you can add to the end of a statement to make it a question, for example as in the sentence ‘You’re a solicitor, aren’t you?’ -- tag soalan
Ladd (1981) draws attention to the existence of a contrast between nuclear and postnuclear intonation on question tags.
Finally, some languages have words whose only function is as a question tag.
What structural markers, question tags, and questions have in common is that they are much more subject to the discourse restrictions of academic speech.
They are similar to facilitative question tags; however, they do not give up the turn.
The communicative restrictions for structural markers, questions, and question tags in academic discourse are discussed in a brief overview below.
For the quantitative analysis, structural markers, various functions of questions, question tags, and turn-initial response tokens have been chosen as the structures to be investigated.
The less powerful conversational partner does not use facilitative question tags, but the powerful party does; powerful women tend to use more than powerful males.
Concerning question tags, an examination of the frequency counts can illuminate the lack of convincing gender differences.
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