You're like 'why not?' The quotative expressions of Glasgow adolescents

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3631395
AutoresRonald K S Macaulay (Pitzer College, autor de correspondencia), Ronald Macaulay
Año2001
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas3-21
Fecha de publicación2001-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9481.00135
OpenAlexW2148704278
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas51

The sociolinguistic study of discourse features is still at a very elementary stage, so there is very little evidence available on which to trace changes in the use of such features. One feature that has received attention is the use of non-traditional quotatives in the U.S., particularly by younger speakers, in the past twenty years. The use of be like as a quotative has spread from its presumed origin in California to other parts of the U.S. and also to Canada and England. This paper examines the further spread of non-traditional quotatives to the speech of adolescents in Glasgow and how these forms might have been transmitted

Feature (linguistics · Linguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology