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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.
In spoken language, question tags, relative clauses and subject- verb concord often fail to conform to prescriptive descriptions.
She found that women seemed to be using more tag questions of the facilitative kind, while men used more modal question tags, question tags that ask for information or confirmation.
However, its identification as a pronoun is most consistent with its behavior in inverted sentences and question tags as described above.
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