[Corpora-List] Corpus-based studies of very recent shifts in English (fol...

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Dear Mark,
 
you might also take a look at the enormous amount of research that's been  
done recently on quotative BE like (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 BE  like is commonly 
regarded as a site of dynamic language change, these  studies might well provide 
good bases for future comparative studies.
 
Selected refs on BE like:
 
Andersen, G. (1998) ‘The pragmatic marker like  from a relevance-theoretic  
perspective’. In Jucker, A. H. and Y. Ziv. (eds)  Discourse Markers. 
Descriptions  
and  Theory.  Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 147–70. (based on  
COLT) 
Andersen, G. (2001) Pragmatic Markers and  Sociolinguistic Variation. A   
Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Language of  Adolescents.  Amsterdam/  
Philadelphia:  John Benjamins. (based on COLT)
 
Buchstaller, I. (2002) ‘He goes and I’m like:  The new Quotatives re-visited’
.  
Internet Proceedings of the University of the  Edinburgh Postgraduate  
Conference 1–20. (based on the SWITCHBOARD  Corpus and the Santa Barabra 
Corpus of Spoken English) 
Ferrara, K. and B. Bell (1995) ‘Sociolinguistic  variation and discourse   
function of constructed dialogue introducers:  The case of be + like’. 
American  
Speech 70 (3): 265–290.  
Levey, S. (2003) ‘He’s like “Do it now!” and  I’m like “No!”, some 
innovative  
quotative usage among young people in London’.  English Today 19(1):  
24–32. 
 
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) 
 
 
Tagliamonte, S. and R. Hudson (1999) ‘Be  like et al. beyond America: The  
quotative system in British and Canadian  youth’. Journal of Sociolinguistics 
3/2:  147–72. 
 
Tagliamonte,  S. and A. D’Arcy (2004) ‘He’s  like, she’s like: The  
quotative system in Canadian youth.’  Journal of Sociolinguistics 8/4:  493-514 (this 
study is, to my knowledge, the only directly comparative study; it  relates 
to Tagliamonte and Hudson 1999)
 
Stenström,  A., G. Andersen and I. K. Hasund. (2002). Trends  in Teenage 
Talk.  Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (based on COLT)
 
Hope  this helps.
 
Chris
 
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Dr.  Christoph Rühlemann
Munich



   
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