You know : a discourse functional approach / Jan-Ola Östman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Östman, Jan-Ola.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 2:7.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 2:7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--United States.

English language.

English language--Acquisition.

English language--Sex differences.

English language--Particles.

Children--Language.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : Benjamins, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35967-7

9786613359674

90-272-8078-9

OCLC:

769342173