Abstract
This paper aims to describe the use of tag questions in the variety of Andean Spanish spoken in Bolivia. In particular, it explores the tag questions that occur in the Corpus oral del español hablado por bilingües de aymara-español. The analysis consists of two levels. On the one hand, it describes the pragmatic functions of tag questions and identifies the correlation between their distribution and their pragmatic functions. On the other hand, it focuses on the impact that social factors (the speakers’ sex, age, and education) have on the frequency of the tags. Along these lines, it displays the lack of a general sociolinguistic trend in the use of tag questions, furthermore, it shows that the higher frequency of tags in a sociolinguistic group rather than in another is tag-dependent.
Highlights
The present paper is structured as follows: Introduction outlines the scope of the paper, the relevant related literature (§1.1), and the main features of Andean and Bolivian Spanish (§1.2)
Andean Spanish, in general, and Bolivian Spanish, in particular, belong to this second group. By considering this existing knowledge gap, this study aims to investigate the use and functioning of tag questions in the variety of Andean Spanish spoken in Bolivia
Given the unequal number of participants in each sociolinguistic group, I calculated the ratio between the absolute frequency of tag questions in each sociolinguistic group and the total of words expressed by the same group
Summary
The present paper is structured as follows: Introduction outlines the scope of the paper, the relevant related literature (§1.1), and the main features of Andean and Bolivian Spanish (§1.2). This section is split into two subsections. In Subsection 2.2, I outline the method of the data analysis.
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