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This study investigated question tags in world Englishes from a comparative perspective. A corpus analysis was conducted with the GloWbe to identify the forms and communicative functions of the commonly used question tags in inner-circle and outer-circle English-speaking countries. It revealed that the three most frequent positive tags are do you?, are you?, and would you?, and negative-positive balanced tags are more frequent than unbalanced ones. An in-depth analysis of the concordance lines indicates that unbalanced tags are primarily used for euphemistic, ironic, and confrontational effects. English speakers in the inner-circle countries tend to use would you? tags in imperative and argumentative situations while those in the outer-circle countries use them more often to make a request for confirmation and express encouragement in phatic communion. Furthermore, inner-circle speakers exhibit a tendency to use do you? and are you? tags to posit a proposition that presupposes the listener’s agreement, whereas in the outer-circle countries their usage contexts are preferentially associated with emphasis, oxymoron, and sarcasm.

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I. Introduction
II. Background of the Study
III. Method
3.1 Data Collection
3.2 Procedure
IV. Results and Discussion
4.1 Frequent Question Tags in Englishes
4.2 Verbs and Phrases Collocating with Question Tags
4.3 Communicative Functions of Question Tags in Englishes
V. Conclusion
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• Ebtisam Al-Emad [ Chonnam National University, Doctoral Student ] First author
• Mun-Hong Choe [ Chonnam National University, Professor ] Corresponding author

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