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by iwnit on November 19th, 2009
I would call this an "assertion with questioning intonation".
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http://www.jstor.org/pss/454443
Some people talk about "illocutionary boundary tones".
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http://books.google.com/books?id=4KLsXL_7-D4C&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=illocutionary+boundary+tones&source=bl&ots=3kf6ro1FT1&sig=Vpegt98PhG5KCk--5CtA1lIX0n0&hl=en&ei=nV0FS67RENiEsAb05fW5Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=illocutionary%20boundary%20tones&f=false
by tapatio on August 14th, 2009
You expected an answer?
by jade310 on August 14th, 2009
As in for example: "You went to Japan last summer?"
by Cyanotic Wasp on November 19th, 2009
That's, like, ValleyGirlSpeak, like popularized by the like girls of the San Fernando Valley in California in like the 1980s, you know?
And it's, like, not a question?
by Brian I on November 18th, 2009
I would call it reverse Bristolian. A very strange thing about people from Bristol (England) is that they sound as though they are asking a question when they are making a statement. The other strange thing is that they put an L on the end of words ending with a vowel - hence Bristol, and not Bristow.
by JulesB on November 18th, 2009
It's called one that I refuse to answer. I HATE when people do that.
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