Diagnostics of age-graded linguistic behaviour: The case of the quotative system1
Diagnostics of age-graded linguistic behaviour: The case of the quotative system1
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年龄分级语言行为的诊断：引语系统的案例1
DOI：
10.1111/j.1360-6441.2006.00315.x
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
I. Buchstaller
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作者：
I. Buchstaller
This article presents a cross-variety investigation of quotatives be like and go in apparent and real time. Distributional and attitudinal evidence points to a change in progress as the underlying process for the distribution of be like. However, there is also evidence of life-span change (Sankoff to appear). The patterning of go across age is much less clear-cut. It could be interpreted as age grading or as a change in progress. This paper discusses seemingly contradictory findings from U.S. and British English. It will be suggested that the distribution of go is due to unstable behaviour at both the individual and the community level. Furthermore, there is evidence that go has a latent presence in the linguistic repertoire and was picked up again after its frequency dipped due to the introduction of be like. This finding ties in with other reported cases of recycling of variables (Dubois and Horvath 1999).
