Amina Mettouchi | LLINGLUniversité de Nantes, and Institut Universitaire de France
Most accounts of you know as a discourse marker underline shared knowledge as its core value. This study focuses on less standard values of you know where it functions as an introducer of new viewpoints or pieces of information, as a marker of the speakers’ will to impose their viewpoint, or as an emphasizing marker. We show that the loss of the spatio-temporal anchoring of the sequence and the evolution of its prosodic features are characteristics of those particular uses of you know. This leads us to propose a grammaticalization cline with clearcut stages, where the more argumentative uses of you know correspond to the rightmost stage of the cline <propositional – textual – interpersonal> (Traugott and Dasher 2002).
2023. Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews. Language & Communication 93 ► pp. 136 ff.
Debras, Camille
2014. Formes et fonctions du discours d’expert dans des discussions sur l’environnement entre étudiants britanniques : une étude multimodale de la prise de position en interaction. ASp 65 ► pp. 45 ff.
Debras, Camille
2021. Multimodal profiles of je (ne) sais pas in spoken French. Journal of Pragmatics 182 ► pp. 42 ff.
안미경
2012. Pragmatic Marker you know in Social Interaction and Language Teaching. Studies in Foreign Language Education 26:2 ► pp. 27 ff.
Loock, Rudy
2010. La fausse hiérarchisation entre information nouvelle et information ancienne à l’épreuve des modèles théoriques de la politesse. Lexis Special issue 2
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