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<DIV>Dear Mark,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>you might also take a look at the enormous amount of research that's been
done recently on quotative <EM>BE like</EM> (see refs below). Not all of
this research is corpus linguistic (but some is) and not all of it (in fact,
only a small portion of it) is effectively comparative. But since <EM>BE
like</EM> is commonly regarded as a site of dynamic language change, these
studies might well provide good bases for future comparative studies.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Selected refs on <EM>BE like</EM>:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Andersen, G. (1998) ‘The pragmatic marker <I>like</I>
from a relevance-theoretic <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">perspective’. In Jucker, A. H. and Y. Ziv. (eds)
<I>Discourse Markers. Descriptions <o:p></o:p></I></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">and
Theory</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 147–70. (based on
COLT)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Andersen, G. (2001) <I>Pragmatic Markers and
Sociolinguistic Variation. A<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Language of
Adolescents.</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
Amsterdam/ <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. (based on COLT)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Buchstaller, I. (2002) ‘He goes and I’m like:
The new Quotatives re-visited’. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Internet Proceedings of the University of the
Edinburgh Postgraduate <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Conference 1–20. (based on the SWITCHBOARD
Corpus and the Santa Barabra Corpus of Spoken English)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Ferrara, K. and B. Bell (1995) ‘Sociolinguistic
variation and discourse<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">function of constructed dialogue introducers:
The case of be + like’. American <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Speech 70 (3): 265–290. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Levey, S. (2003) ‘He’s like “Do it now!” and
I’m like “No!”, some innovative <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">quotative usage among young people in London’.
<I>English Today</I> 19(1): <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">24–32.
</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Rühlemann,
C. 2007. Conversation in Context. A Corpus-driven Approach. London: Continuum
(contains a case study on BE like in British conversation, based on the
BNC) </SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Tagliamonte, S. and R. Hudson (1999) ‘<I>Be
like</I> et al. beyond America: The <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">quotative system in British and Canadian
youth’. Journal of Sociolinguistics <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">3/2:
147–72. </SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tagliamonte,
S. and A. D’Arcy (2004) ‘</SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He’s
like, she’s like: </SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
quotative system in Canadian youth.’</SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
Journal of Sociolinguistics </SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">8/4:
493-514 (this study is, to my knowledge, the only directly comparative study; it
relates to Tagliamonte and Hudson 1999)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Stenström,
A., G. Andersen and I. K. Hasund. (2002). </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Trends
in Teenage Talk</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (based on COLT)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Hope
this helps.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Chris</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">-------------------------</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Dr.
Christoph Rühlemann</SPAN></DIV>
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