You Know

• Preface | p. v
• 0. Aim | p. 1
• 1. Introduction | p. 3
• 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 | p. 13
• 2.1. Issues to be Covered
• 2.2. Methodology
• 2.3. Data
• 3. The Meaning and Functions of You know | p. 15
• 3.1. Preamble
• 3.2. The General Meaning of You know
• 3.3. You know and Stylistic Strategies
• 3.4. Sub-Functions 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 | p. 45
• 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 | p. 67
• 5.1. General Remarks
• 5.2. Social Dialects and You know
• 5.3. Women's Language
• 5.4. Sex Differences in the Use of You know
• 6. Concluding Remark | p. 79
• Notes | p. 81

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