Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions1
Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions1
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标签问题的风格、索引性和社会意义1
作者：
E. Moore;Robert Podesva
摘要本文阐述了语体和指引性的概念如何解释对特定语言变量--附加疑问句的社会意义的理解。本文利用英格兰西北部一个高中女生社区的会话言语和民族志数据，定量和定性地考察了该社区中标签疑问句的语篇、语法和语音设计。四个社会群体的成员使用类似效果的附加疑问句，作为引导特定观点的一种手段。然而，这些群体在标签的文体构成上也表现出显著的差异，这些差异索引地构建了立场和人物角色，而这反过来可能代表着群体身份。这些数据表明，通过考察附加疑问句的内部构成，并将其置于更广泛的话语和社会文体语境中，可以最好地确定附加疑问句的社会意义。(青少年，民族志，索引性，互动语境，定量话语分析，社会意义，风格，标签问题)
ABSTRACT This article illustrates how the notions of style and indexicality can illuminate understanding of the social meaning of a specific linguistic variable, the tag question. Drawing on conversational speech and ethnographic data from a community of high school girls in northwest England, it quantitatively and qualitatively examines the discourse, grammatical, and phonological design of tag questions in this community. Members of four social groups are shown to use tag questions to similar effect, as a means of conducing particular points of view. However, these groups also exhibit striking differences in the stylistic composition of tags, distinctions that indexically construct stances and personas, which may in turn come to represent group identity. These data suggest that the social meaning of tag questions can be best ascertained by examining their internal composition and by situating them in their broader discursive and social stylistic contexts. (Adolescents, ethnography, indexicality, interactional context, quantitative discourse analysis, social meaning, style, tag questions)