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

Bibliographic Data

ID3631395
AuthorsRonald K S Macaulay (Pitzer College, corresponding author), Ronald Macaulay
Year2001
Volume5
Issue1
Pages3-21
Publication date2001-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9481.00135
OpenAlexW2148704278
LanguageEN
Citations received51

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