Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. List of abbreviations xi
5. Typographical conventions in the examples xv
6. Key to transcription conventions xvii
7. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 2. State of the art and aims of study 7
9. Chapter 3. Corpora, data and methodology 35
10. Chapter 4. TQ properties 51
11. Chapter 5. Speech functions 93
12. Chapter 6. Stance typology of TQs 129
13. Chapter 7. TQs across the three corpora 191
14. Chapter 8. Conclusions and prospects for future research 215
15. References 223
16. Appendix 237
17. Name index 245
18. Subject index 247