“…b-Conversation style, in this paper, choice of vocabulary, the asking of questions, in particular tag questions, the use of interruption, and three ways of controlling a conversation are examined (e.g., Jespersen, 1922;Zimmerman & West, 1975;Beattie, 1982;Arise & Johnson, 1983;Coates, 1993;Herring, 1993;Tannen 1993;Bucholtz & Hall, 1995;Bonvillain, 2003;Goddard & Patterson, 2003;Kakava, 2006;Herring & Paolillo, 2006).…”