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IJLLL 2025 Vol.11(5): 243-246
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2025.11.5.609

A Conversational Analysis on the Pragmatic Functions of “X1+you know+X2” in Interview

Yueqi Ma and Yi Zhang*
School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Email: mayueqi@mail.nwpu.edu.cn (Y.Q.M.); yizhang@nwpu.edu.cn (Y.Z.)br /> *Corresponding author

Manuscript received March 31, 2025; accepted April 4, 2025; published October 29, 2025.

Abstract—Discourse markers have been significant in various fields for several years, especially pragmatics and syntax. Among those multifunctional discourse markers, one of the commonest one is “you know”. However, its usage has not been thoroughly explored from the perspective of conversation analysis. This study intends to fill this gap by deeply analyzing pragmatic functions of “you know” when appearing in the middle of a turn by taking an interview as the corpus. Samples were chosen from an English interview program on Cable News Network (CNN)-Larry King Live on March 28th, 2018 and through transcription and the use of Antconc4.2.4 as the instrument, the research findings demonstrated that among all the 221 “you know” identified from the corpus this study established, “X1+you know+X2” appeared 89 times, 54 of which appeared at the initial position of the sequence, playing the function of confirming the mutuality, opening a topic and reminding the information, whereas 35 non-initial “X1+you know+X2” played the function of showing the attitude and emphasizing. The qualitative analysis manifested the relationship between sequential positions and the pragmatic functions of “X1+you know+X2”.

Keywords—“X1+you know+X2”, conversational analysis, pragmatic function

Cite: Yueqi Ma and Yi Zhang, "A Conversational Analysis on the Pragmatic Functions of “X1+you know+X2” in Interview," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 243-246, 2025.

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