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You Know: A Discourse-Functional Approach
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You Know: A Discourse-Functional ApproachThe basic function the expression you know serves in conversational discourse is said to be that of a pragmatic particle used when the speaker wants the addressee to accept as mutual knowledge (or at least be cooperative with respect to) the propositional content of his utterance. The fact that you know is even used when the addressee is assumed not to know what the speaker is talking about, suggests that it functions at the deference level of politeness, as a striving towards attaining a camaraderie relationship between speaker and hearer.
 
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Tags: speaker, addressee, politeness, level, striving
The Carbon Footprint Wars - What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization?
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The Carbon Footprint Wars - What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization?The Carbon Footprint Wars - What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization?

Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more urgent as the scientific predictions of the effects of climate change become increasingly dire. Whether we are fully aware of the social and political consequences of striving for a significant reduction is more questionable.

 
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Tags: change, consequences, striving, significant, political, Globalization, Carbon, Retreat, Footprint
Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels
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Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven NovelsAldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels

Aldous Huxley, author of eleven novels, remains one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, his work resistant to passing fads in literature. This critical biography explores Huxley's life-long quest for self-actualization by interfacing the events of his life with details of the creative period that produced each book.
 
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Tags: Huxley, Aldous, importance, depiction, striving
Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World
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Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the WorldEach of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.
 
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Tags: brilliance, striving, meant, instead, within