Tag Phrases in Dialogues of Ben Jonson's Play
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22039220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Yu Merkuryeva (0009-0006-4144-3694, Moscow State Institute of International Relations), N Yu Merkur'yeva (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 113-129 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nauchnyi Dialog (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2225-756X • E-ISSN: 2227-1295 |
| Publisher | OOO Centr naucnyh i obrazovatelnyh proektov (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.24224/2227-1295-2026-15-3-113-129 |
| OpenAlex | W7160432988 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article investigates constructions of spoken dialogical speech that contain brief structures composed of a personal pronoun combined with an auxiliary verb (modal, substitute, auxiliary, or copula). A general term proposed for such structures is tag phrase . Four models of constructions featuring tag phrases are examined: those where the tag phrase appears within one syntagmatic chain together with an adjoining clause, or forms an independent reactive utterance in dialogue unity. These include examples like (1) Peter will come, won't he? (2) “Peter will come.” “Won't he?” (3) Peter will come, he will. (4) “ Will Peter come?” “He will.” Through analysis of dialogues from Ben Jonson’s comedy Every Man in His Humour (1598), it is demonstrated how tag phrases contribute to conversational fluidity by adding naturalness and emotional nuances to character speeches, breaking up lengthy turns, highlighting specific words or combinations, making them more prominent for both audiences and readers, and conveying information about characters' social standing. It has been found that these functions are rendered in Russian translations via lexical-syntactic features of Russian sentences, as exemplified in P. N. Sokolova's translation published in 1933
Dialogical self · Naturalness · Noun phrase · Phrase · Syntagmatic analysis · Syntax · Utterance · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |