Be "Like" et al. beyond America: The Quotative System in British and Canadian Youth.

Tagliamonte, Sali; Hudson, Rachel

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Publication Date: 1999

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Be "Like" et al. beyond America: The Quotative System in British and Canadian Youth.

Tagliamonte, Sali; Hudson, Rachel

Journal of Sociolinguistics, v3 n2 p147-72 May 1999

Studies the quotative system of contemporary British and Canadian youth. Multivariate analysis of nearly 1300 quotative verbs demonstrates that the innovative form "be like" is productive in both Canada and Britain. Traditional quotatives such as "say,""go,""think" are used according to somewhat different patterns in the two corpora. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Multivariate Analysis, North American English, Verbs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada; United Kingdom (Great Britain)

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