Karin Axelsson
Health and Education
University of Skovde
Sweden
Biography
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg Teaching Grammar, written proficiency, pronunciation, phonetics and Academic Writing.
Research Interest
I am interested in corpus-based linguistics, the language of fiction dialogue, pragmatics, contrastive linguistics, translation studies and language typology. My research is focused on various aspects on tag questions.
Publications
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Axelsson, Karin. 2011a. Tag questions in fiction dialogue. PhD thesis. Göteborg: University of Gothenburg.
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Axelsson, Karin. 2011b. A cross-linguistic study of grammatically-dependent question tags: Data and theoretical implications. Studies in Language, 35:4, 793–851.
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Axelsson, Karin. 2014. Confirmation-demanding tag questions in fiction dialogue. In: Subjectivity and Epistemicity: corpus, discourse, and literary appraoches to stance, ed. by Dylan Glynn and Mette Sjölin. Lund: Lund University, 165–185.
