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Publication details [#25879]

Macaulay, Ronald. 2002. You know, it depends. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (6) : 749–767.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | discourse analysis | discourse marker | gender | social class

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This analysis of the use of YOU KNOW as a discourse marker in extended different and same-sex speech samples recorded in Ayr and Glasgow, shows differences related to age, gender and social class that appear to be unrelated to any notion of 'shared information'.