ABSTRACT
The chapter examines the use of the emerging pragmatic marker you get me (e.g., I’m just gonna give her a little backhand or whatever cos she needs to learn, you get me?) in the 1.5-million word Multicultural London English Corpus (MLEC) (2008). The corpus contains sociolinguistic interviews with London English speakers, and the metadata provide information about a speaker’s ethnicity, sex and age group. The analysis focuses on the extent of use of you get me, as well as its variants and discourse functions in relation to sociolinguistic factors (e.g., ethnicity, sex and age).
