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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457240203321

Autore

Östman Jan-Ola

Titolo

You know [[electronic resource] ] : a discourse functional approach / / Jan-Ola Östman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Benjamins, 1981

ISBN

1-283-35967-7

9786613359674

90-272-8078-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0166-6258 ; ; 2:7

Disciplina

420/.1/9

Soggetti

English language - United States

English language - Acquisition

English language - Sex differences

English language - Particles

Children - Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

YOU KNOW: A DISCOURSE FUNCTIONAL APPROACH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; 0. AIM; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Pragmatics.; 1.2. Face-Saving and Politeness.; 1.3. Implicit Anchorage.; 1.4. Cooperation and Grammar.; 1.5. Planning and Indirectness.; 1.6. Semantics and Pragmatics.; 2. THE PRESENT STUDY; 2.1. Issues to be covered.; 2.1. Methodology.; 2.3. Data.; 3. THE MEANING AND FUNCTIONS OF YOU KNOW; 3.1. Preamble.; 3.2. The General Meaning of You know.; 3.3. You know and Stylistic Strategies.

3.4. Subfunctions of You know: ""as you know"" & ""don't you know"".3.5. You know as a Turn-Switching Marker.; 3.6. Pauses and You know.; 3.7. You know and Some Other Pragmatic Particles.; 3.8. On the Linguistic Representation of Pragmatic Expressions: The Level Analysis.; 3.9. The Particle Contour.; 3.10. Other Languages.; 4. THE ACQUISITION OF YOU KNOW; 4.1. Pragmatic Expressions and Child Language Acquisition.; 4.2. Egocentricity vs. Sociocentricity.; 4.3. The Segment Know in Early Child Language Acquisition.; 4.4. Speaker-



Oriented Know.; 4.5. Listener-Oriented Know.

4.6. The Acquisition of You know: Summary.4.7. On the Acquisition of Some Other Pragmatic Particles.; 4.8. Child Acquisition and Level Analysis.; 5. SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF YOU KNOW: MALE AND FEMALE USAGE.; 5.1. General Remarks.; 5.2. Social Dialects.; 5.3. Women's Language.; 5.4. Sex Differences in the Use of You know.; 6. CONCLUDING REMARK; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

The basic function the expression you know serves in conversational discourse is said to be that of a pragmatic particle used when the speaker wants the addressee to accept as mutual knowledge (or at least be cooperative with respect to) the propositional content of his utterance. The fact that you know is even used when the addressee is assumed not to know what the speaker is talking about, suggests that it functions at the deference level of politeness, as a striving towards attaining a camaraderie relationship between speaker and hearer. You know is found to be more oft