1.7 Design of the study ............................................................................................. 3 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................... 4 2.1. Previous studies .................................................................................................. 4 2.2 Theoretical background...................................................................................... 5 2.2.1 An overview of syntactic features .................................................................. 5
2.2.2 An overview of pragmatic features ............................................................... 12
2.2.3 Summary ....................................................................................................... 19 Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY ................................................................................. 20 3.1 Approaches ........................................................................................................ 20 3.2 Methods .............................................................................................................. 25 3.3 Data collection instruments .............................................................................. 26 3.4 Data analysis technique .................................................................................... 27 Chapter 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ............................................................ 28 4.1 Syntactic features of tag question in English .................................................. 28 4.2 Pragmatic features of tag question in English ................................................ 37