THE DISCOURSE MARKERS YOU SEE, YOU KNOW AND ACTUALLY RECONSIDERED: A COGNITIVE-INFERENTIAL ACCOUNT

Abstract

Couched within the relevance-theoretic, cognitive-inferential, framework, this paper aims at providing a comparative analysis of the cognitive (i.e. linguistic semantic and pragmatic) configurations and roles of the linguistic expressions you see, you know and actually, which have come to be used as discourse markers. A further, derivative, aim pertains to highlighting their similarities and differences in manipulative types of ordinary conversational exchanges.