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2 - Evaluation of Pragmatic Markers

The Case of You Know

from Part I - Innovations in Theory and Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2022

By
Erik Schleef  and
Bradley Mackay
Edited by
Elizabeth Peterson ,
Turo Hiltunen  and
Joseph Kern
Elizabeth Peterson
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
Turo Hiltunen
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
Joseph Kern
Affiliation:
University of Virginia’s College at Wise
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Summary

This study compares the evaluation of speech with the pragmatic marker you know to speech without any pragmatic markers. The comparison is based on a set of perception surveys, in which participants listened to manipulated audio stimuli and rated them on a series of scales. Results suggest that the classic prestige, solidarity, and dynamism model is not suitable for the pragmatic marker you know. The social salience of you know is relatively weak and guises with you know are rated as less formal, less trustworthy, less precise, less experienced, less fluent, and less determined than guises without pragmatic markers. This study shows that the evaluation of you know is multidimensional and that the social meanings of you know arise out of its most immediate pragmatic and interactional context.

Keywords

you knowattitudesprestigesolidaritydynamism
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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change
Theory, Innovations, Contact
 , pp. 40 - 60
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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