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- Title
Use of the discourse marker like in interviews.
- Authors
Fuller, Janet M.
- Abstract
Examines the colloquial uses of 'like' as a discourse marker with the goal of specifying its discourse functions including semantic pragmatic and socio-pragmatic aspects of meaning. Factors that give rise to variation in rates of like use in different interviews; Revelation that data for this study were collected as part of a larger project on the use of discourse markers in interviews and in naturally occurring conversation by both native and non-native English speakers; Two main functions of like.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language conversation &; phrase books; PARTICLES (Grammar); INTERVIEWING; CONVERSATION; SPOKEN English; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003, Vol 7, Issue 3, p365
- ISSN
1360-6441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9481.00229