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Direct linkTree, Jean E. Fox; Tomlinson, John M., Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
A comparison across spontaneous speech collected in the 1980s and the 2000s reveals a dramatic flip between the use of "said" versus "like" as enquoting devices. The greater use of "like" is reflected in a wide variety of quotation types including reported speech, thoughts, exclamations, and sounds. There is no…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Usage, Semantics, Language Patterns
