
Such results support usage-based approaches to the investigation of linguistic structure, which by proceeding locally, are able to capture form-function regularities missed by more global structuralist methods. Amidst the event, while the streamers were interacting with fans, one follower got on stage and clearly stated that she did not know who SypherPK was: 'Youre Swagg, youre TimTheTatman, I dunno. In these highly frequent environments, don't is dependent on surrounding material, and its phonetic reduction is part of a more general process of grammaticization of collocations such as I don't know which are highly frequent and exhibit a range of semantic and pragmatic functions in conversation. I dunno LOL (emoticon: (o)/ ) is an expression denoting a sense of confusion, derived from the common English idiom I dont know and the acronym LOL. In actual usage, however, phonetically reduced alternates overwhelmingly appear in declarative constructions preceded by the first person singular pronoun followed by a small group of verbs whose meanings lend themselves to expressing speaker attitude in combination with I ( e.g.

Displays as raised shoulders, sometimes in conjunction with raised arms and flat hands.

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Formal theoretical mechanisms have been invoked to describe the variation of full and reduced forms of the English negative auxiliary don't. Dunno means 'dont know.' People typically use this casual, clipped slang term among family and friends, when they do not know what they are going to do. A person shrugging their shoulders to indicate a lack of knowledge about a particular topic, or a lack of care about the result of a situation.
