More on quotative "like"

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Maggie et al.,

While looking for something else, I found this:

Record 13 of 119 in LLBA 1973-2001/09

    TITLE: The Sociolinguistic Distribution of and Attitudes toward
Focuser Like and Quotative Like
    AUTHOR: Dailey-O'Cain,-Jennifer
    INSTITUTION: U Alberta, Edmonton [e-mail:
jenniedo at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca]
    SOURCE; Journal-of-Sociolinguistics; 2000, 4, 1, Feb, 60-80.
    DT: aja Abstract-of-Journal-Article

    ABSTRACT: Draws on 1995 sociolinguistic interview data from 30
speakers, ages 14-69, who had grown up in southeastern Michigan to
considers the actual age & gender distribution of like in a corpus of
informal US English.  Findings of that study are compared with the
perceived age & gender distribution as determined by questionnaire & a
matched guise study (N = 40 respondents, ages 18-30 & 45-60), & analyzes
specific sociolinguistic stereotypes associated with this usage. It is
found that younger people use both kinds of like more often than older
people do, & men & women use it approximately equally often. The perceived
age & gender distribution is quite different, however;  young women are
perceived as using like most often. Additionally, informants guess the age
of like guise s as younger than they do the age of non-like guise s, &
rate like guise s more positively in terms of solidarity-based criteria,
but less positively in terms of status-based criteria. 3 Tables, 5
Figures, 25 References. Adapted from the source document DEM:
*Sociolinguistics- (80200); *Corpus-Linguistics (15670);
*Age-Differences (01150); *Sex-Differences (77850);  *Language-Usage
(44600); *Social-Functions-of-Language (79925) AN:  200010086

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