ABSTRACT
Thediscourseparticleyouknow<hereafterYK> 1 .as
ifyoulookYKinthe~newspaper... Ifeelthat~YKIthinkit'swrong. butuh~YKyagetafeelingthat...
canappearsofrequentlyinconversationthatitsuseby
somespeakersisapttobestigmatized,evenbythespeak~
ersthemselves,asadysfluency.OthersuseYKsparingly,
onehasnothingtosay,orwhenonecannot,orwillnot
botherto,findtheproperwordstoexpresssomething(cf.
tivefunction:YKisseennotasafunctionallinguistic
itemsomuchasadisfigurementofspeech(e.g.Newman
