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Results
The following analysis presents the conclusions of the quantitative study of the
collected data. The results are presented in Table 3. and ilustrate the frequency
in which question tags appear in Polish and English casual conversations.
As it may be noted in Table 3. below, question tags are applied mostly by
women, irrespective of the language spoken. The sample reveals that Polish
women apply the specific device over twice as often as men (69% and 31% of
all times respectively), while the English representatives do so even thrice more
frequently (77% of all occurences). Moreover, it appears that while it is the
facilitative type that is the most popular with the speakers, regardless of their
gender, the softening form is adopted the least frequently.
Conversations
Markers
POLISH
ENGLISH
Males Females Males Females
Question
tags
Epistemic 7 12 2 6
Facilitative 11 35 4 17
Softening 0 3 1 2
Challenging 8 8 3 8
Total
26 58 10 33
(30.9%) (69.1%) (23.3%) (76.7%)
Table 3. The total number of the marker’s appearance.
Basing solely on the raw data from Table 3. it may be concluded that women
produce all types of tags more frequently than men. However, after analysing
what part of all the question tags applied by a given gender the specific types
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