Question tags in translation

Buysse, Lieven

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“…Dutch does not have a literal equivalent to the English negative tag questions such as isn't it, didn't he, haven't they, etc. The question tag hè 'eh' was used instead because the semantics, syntactic position, and frequency of this tag are similar to the English negative tag questions [25]- [27]. The stimuli were checked for naturalness by three other native speakers of Dutch with no connection to the study.…”

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Prosodic encoding of sarcasm at the sentence level in Dutch

Jansen¹,

Chen²

2020

Speech Prosody 2020

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This study investigated the prosodic characteristics of sarcastic speech in Dutch. Twenty native speakers of Dutch produced sentences in a sarcastic and sincere way in a simulated telephone conversation task. Prosodic analysis at the sentencelevel shows that in Dutch sarcasm is characterised by a longer duration, lower intensity, and less vocal noise compared to sincere speech. Utterance type and speaker gender influence the use of pitch and duration to realise sarcasm: pitch is lowered in some utterance types but raised in others, and female speakers expand pitch span, while male speakers use greater durational differences. These findings can partly be explained by referring to an emphasis-based theory of sarcastic prosody, whereby speakers draw attention to what is said by using a slower speech rate and clearer voice, and a distancing hypothesis, whereby speakers lower the intensity and pitch to distance themselves from the lexical meaning of the utterance.

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Prosodic encoding of sarcasm at the sentence level in Dutch

Jansen¹,

Chen²

2020

Speech Prosody 2020

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Questions in English and Swedish fiction texts

Axelsson

2020

LiC

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Abstract The aim of this article is to shed new light on the use and translation of English and Swedish questions in fiction by using a combination of parallel and comparable corpus data extracted from the bidirectional English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. In particular, the study examines questions containing a question mark (QMquestions) categorised into wh-interrogatives, polar interrogatives, alternative questions, tag questions (including those with invariant tags), declarative questions, wh-fragments and non-wh-fragments. The parallel analysis shows that most QMquestion types are more often translated congruently into English than into Swedish. The focus is on types with low mutual correspondence scores: fragments, tag questions and declarative questions. The comparable analyses concern both bilingual contrasts between the original texts and monolingual contrasts between the translation and original subcorpora in both languages. The bilingual analysis aligns with several preliminary findings in the parallel analysis, e.g. the favouring of tag questions and some types of wh-fragments in English. The monolingual analysis reveals both over- and underuse in translations and points to a strong effect of source-language influence.

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Tag Questions in Conversation

Kimps

2018

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English tag questions. Compared to existing descriptions, the proposed typology is novel in three ways. Firstly, whereas almost all existing typologies are single-layered classifications, the functions of tag questions are categorized into two parallel dimensions of interpersonal meaning: the speech function and the stance layer. Secondly, semantic generalizations are proposed for clusters of grammatical, intonational and conversational properties. Thirdly, the bottom-up description is based on a sizeable amount of authentic, spontaneous conversations, which are analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively.

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Question tags in translation

Cited by 22 publications

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Prosodic encoding of sarcasm at the sentence level in Dutch

Prosodic encoding of sarcasm at the sentence level in Dutch

Questions in English and Swedish fiction texts

Tag Questions in Conversation

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