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IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2020-11-09 DOI:10.1075/eww.00053.rod

Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Sophie Richard, Sana Bharadwaj

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Quotative be like has been described as “one of the most striking developments [in English]” (Tagliamonte and D’Arcy 2004: 493). Despite the vast research on quotatives and the upsurge of be like, the potential impact of discourse type on the grammar of quotation has rarely been assessed. Yet, discourse type has proved a relevant factor in linguistic variation (see Travis 2007; Buchstaller 2011; Travis and Lindstrom 2016). Drawing on vernacular spoken data from our multigenerational corpus of Australian English, we include discourse type as a predictor in our recursive partitioning and logistic regression models. Our results show that similar linguistic constraints operate on be like across discourse types. However, significant differences emerge regarding its social conditioning in narrative as opposed to non-narrative discourse, pointing to a strong association between be like and female storytelling.

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引语be like被描述为“英语中最引人注目的发展之一”(Tagliamonte and D 'Arcy 2004: 493)。尽管对引语的研究非常广泛，“be like”的热潮也在兴起，但很少有人对话语类型对引语语法的潜在影响进行评估。然而，话语类型已被证明是语言变异的一个相关因素(见Travis 2007;Buchstaller 2011;Travis and Lindstrom 2016)。利用澳大利亚英语多代语料库中的方言口语数据，我们将话语类型作为递归划分和逻辑回归模型的预测因子。我们的研究结果表明，相似的语言约束在不同的话语类型上起着类似的作用。然而，在叙事话语与非叙事话语的社会条件方面出现了显著差异，这表明“喜欢”与女性讲故事之间存在着强烈的联系。

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