This study explores the interactional functions of shiba(是吧)in Chinese daily conversation from an interactional linguistic perspective.An examination of the data shows that,in addition to acting as a tag question for the speaker to seek confirmation and alignment,some new interactional functions of shibahave emerged,such as response feedback.attention maintainer and so on.This article first describes the turn position and sequence position of shiba in natural conversation then explores some in teractional functions of shiba,and finally,the in...
