DISCOURS Digest - 11 Nov 2000 to 17 Nov 2000 (#2000-108)

[Maria Stubbe]

There's an article on 'like' in a recent volume of the Journal of
Sociolinguistics. I don't have it to hand right now, as I am checking my
email from home, but am happy to send on the reference when I am back in my
office if you can't locate it.

Maria Stubbe

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>  1. "like" (5) Date:    Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:51:24 -0500 From:    James
>Aune  Subject: "like" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;
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>Hi all,
>A few years ago I heard someone knowledgeable in sociolinguistics (James
>Cornish maybe?) say that there was some research on the use of "like" as a
>filler term.  I'm familiar with Michael Huspek's article on "y'know," but I
>am looking for something, like, specifically on, like, "like."
>Jim Aune Speech Communication Penn State Date:    Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:18:47
>-0500 From:    Christian Nelson  Subject: Re: "like" MIME-Version: 1.0
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>I've got an article on this somewhere but can't, like, put my hands on it
>for some reason. I'm fairly sure it was a column by Geoffrey Pullum in that
>journal he used to have a regular column in (but please don't ask me to
>remember the title of the journal--I'm not a linguist by trade). BTW, could
>you share the bib. info. of Huspek's piece? Best, Christian
>James Aune wrote:
>> Hi all, > > A few years ago I heard someone knowledgeable in
>sociolinguistics (James > Cornish maybe?) say that there was some research
>on the use of "like" as a > filler term.  I'm familiar with Michael
>Huspek's article on "y'know," but I > am looking for something, like,
>specifically on, like, "like." > > Jim Aune > Speech Communication > Penn
State
>-- NetscapeCommunicator4.73Win3220000502 Date:    Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:23:43
>-0800 From:    Daniel Collins  Subject: Re: "like" MIME-Version: 1.0
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>These articles are on the quotative 'like,' but they mention the filler and
>hedge functions.
>
>Blyth, Carl, Sigrid Recktenwald, and Jenny Wang.  1990.  I'm like, "Say
>what?!": A new quotative in American oral literature.  American speech 65:
>215-27.
>
>Romaine, Suzanne, and Deborah Lange.  1991.  The use of like  as a marker
>of reported speech and thought: A case of grammaticalization in progress.
>American speech  66: 227-79.
>
>>I've got an article on this somewhere but can't, like, put my hands on it
for
>>some reason. I'm fairly sure it was a column by Geoffrey Pullum in that
>journal
>>he used to have a regular column in (but please don't ask me to remember the
>>title of the journal--I'm not a linguist by trade). BTW, could you share the
>>bib. info. of Huspek's piece?
>>Best,
>>Christian
>>
>>James Aune wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> A few years ago I heard someone knowledgeable in sociolinguistics (James
>>> Cornish maybe?) say that there was some research on the use of "like" as a
>>> filler term.  I'm familiar with Michael Huspek's article on "y'know,"
but I
>>> am looking for something, like, specifically on, like, "like."
>>>
>>> Jim Aune
>>> Speech Communication
>>> Penn State
>>
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>
>Daniel E. Collins, Chair
>Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
>The Ohio State University
>232 Cunz Hall
>Columbus, Ohio 43210  Date:    Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:37:20 -0500 From:
>Kathleen Ferrara  Subject: Re: "like" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:
>text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>	The best article on what has been called "focus like" (He got like
>perturbed.)is by Robert Underhill. 1988.  Like Is, Like, Focus, appearing
>in American Speech 63:234-46. 	Two recent articles which work on quotative
>like (He's like, 'Get a job!') but mention focus like are 	Kathleen Ferrara
>and Barbara Bell 1995.  "Sociolinguistic Variation and Discourse Function
>of Constructed Dialogue Introducers:  The case of be + like, in American
>Speech 70: 265-290. 	Also, Sali Tagliamonte's 1999 article on Quotative
>Like:  Beyond America, appearing in Journal of Sociolinguistics. 	Kathy
>
>
>
>>Hi all, > >A few years ago I heard someone knowledgeable in
>sociolinguistics (James >Cornish maybe?) say that there was some research
>on the use of "like" as a >filler term.  I'm familiar with Michael Huspek's
>article on "y'know," but I >am looking for something, like, specifically
>on, like, "like." > >Jim Aune >Speech Communication >Penn State
>
>Kathleen Ferrara Associate Professor of Linguistics Dept. of English Texas
>A&M University College Station, TX  77843-4227 (409) 845-6451 fax: (409)
>862-2292 e-mail: k-ferrara at tamu.edu Date:    Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:25:25
>-0500 From:    James Aune  Subject: Re: "like" MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>Thank you to everyone for the references.  Christian Nelson asked for the
>reference for the Huspek article on y'know.  It's:
>Huspek, M. (1989).  Linguistic variability and power:  An analysis of YOU
>KNOW/I THINK variation in working-class speech.  Journal of Pragmatics 13,
>661-683.
>Jim Aune Penn State

Maria Stubbe

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