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 … Show more
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