You Know

1. Preface; 2. 0. Aim; 3. 1. Introduction; 4. 1.1. Pragmatics; 5. 1.2. Face-Saving and Politeness; 6. 1.3. Implicit Anchorage; 7. 1.4. Cooperation and Grammar; 8. 1.5. Planning and Indirectness; 9. 1.6. Semantics and Pragmatics; 10. 2. The Present Study; 11. 2.1. Issues to be Covered; 12. 2.2. Methodology; 13. 2.3. Data; 14. 3. The Meaning and Functions of You know; 15. 3.1. Preamble; 16. 3.2. The General Meaning of You know; 17. 3.3. You know and Stylistic Strategies; 18. 3.4. Sub-Functions of You know: "as you know" & "don't you know"; 19. 3.5. You know as a Turn-Switching Marker; 20. 3.6. Pauses and You know; 21. 3.7. You know and Some Other Pragmatic Particles; 22. 3.8. On the Linguistic Representation of Pragmatic Expressions: The Level Analysis; 23. 3.9. The Particle Contour; 24. 3.10. Other Languages; 25. 4. The Acquisition of You know; 26. 4.1. Pragmatic Expressions and Child Language Acquisition; 27. 4.2. Egocentricity vs. Sociocentricity; 28. 4.3. The Segment Know in Early Child Language Acquisition; 29. 4.4. Speaker-Oriented Know; 30. 4.5. Listener-Oriented Know; 31. 4.6. The Acquisition of You know: Summary; 32. 4.7. On the Acquisition of Some Other Pragmatic Particles; 33. 4.8. Child Acquisition and Level Analysis; 34. 5. Socio-Psychological Aspects of You know: Male and Female Usage; 35. 5.1. General Remarks; 36. 5.2. Social Dialects and You know; 37. 5.3. Women's Language; 38. 5.4. Sex Differences in the Use of You know; 39. 6. Concluding Remark; 40. Notes; 41. References