Discourse-pragmatic variation in context : eight hundred years of like / Alexandra D'Arcy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Arcy, Alexandra, 1972- author.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; Volume 187.

Studies in Language Companion Series, 0165-7763 ; Volume 187

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Like (The English word).

English language--Syntax.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context.

Contents:

Intro

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of tables

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

A myriad of like

The unremarkable like, like, like, like, like, like and -like

Approximative adverb like: Remarked upon yet unremarkable

Sentence adverb like: Remarked upon but restricted

Discourse marker like: Remarked upon but not new

Discourse particle like: Remarked upon and innovating

Quotative be like: Remarked upon, but remarkable for unsuspected reasons

English is not alone in like

The analysis of like

(Mis)perceptions of like

The contexts of like

Chapter 2. Empirical context

Diachronic corpora

The Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English

A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760

Old Bailey Proceedings

Corpus of Irish English Correspondence

Corpus of Historical American English

Origins of New Zealand English

Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

State Library of Western Australia Oral History Corpus

Victoria English Archive: Diachronic Component

Corpus of Earlier Ontario English

Synchronic corpora

Corpus of Contemporary American English

International Corpus of English

Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language

York English Corpus

St. John's Youth Corpus

Roots Archive

Corpus of Southwest Tyrone English

Canterbury Regional Survey

Toronto English Archive

Victoria English Archive: Synchronic Components

Chapter 3. Historical context

The historical and archival records

The (apparent) missing link

Pathways of development

Chapter 4. Developmental context

Setting the scene: Context, data, method

But like cannot go anywhere

The development of like

The clausal domain.

The nominal domain

The adjectival domain

The verbal domain

Putting the pieces together: like syntax

Chapter 5. Social context

It's not just the kids

So who uses like?

Women, men and the marker

Men, women and the particle

Gender, function and linguistic change

Chapter 6. Ideological context

like facts versus like fictions

like is just like, and it is meaningless

like is inarticulate and stuff

Women say like all the time

Blame like on the Valley Girls and adolescents

Anything goes

The real like story

Chapter 7. Contextual interfaces

Acquisition of like and ongoing development

Linguistic theory, sociolinguistic theory and language change

Counting matters, and matters of counting

Contextual effects and the community grammar

Frequent collocations and formulae

Lexical versus functional material and lessons from syntax

Summary: Convergence and elaboration

Concluding remarks

Appendix. Anthology of like

Sentence adverb

Discourse marker

Discourse particle.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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