Quotative Use in American English
Quotative Use in American English
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美式英语中的引语用法
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2005
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Federica Barbieri
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作者：
Federica Barbieri
以往对创新引用动词的研究（例如，就像，去）几乎完全基于个人经历或社会语言学采访的叙述。本研究拓宽了我们的理解，在何种程度上新的形式的quoetry建立在美国英语中，通过查看他们的使用在不同的口语互动寄存器。具体而言，本研究调查的使用频率和语法联想模式的quoetes像，去，是所有，说在四个寄存器：休闲会话，大学服务遇到和工作场所的谈话，大学生的学习小组，学术办公室小时咨询。调查结果显示，总体而言，在这些登记册中，“喜欢”和“去”已经很好地建立起来，而“一切”仍然相当罕见。此外，所有新的引语都更频繁地出现在现在时态中，而传统的引语则更频繁地出现在过去时态中。通过对不同语法主语的引语的使用模式和引语的语篇功能的分析，支持了be like在美国英语中不断扩展的假设。
Previous research on innovative quotative verbs (e.g., be like, go) has been based almost exclusively on narratives of personal experience or sociolinguistic interviews. The present study broadens our understanding of the extent to which new forms of quotatives are established in American English by looking at their use across different registers of spoken interaction. Specifically, the study investigates the frequency of use and grammatical association patterns of the quotatives be like, go, be all, and say in four registers: casual conversation, university service encounters and workplace conversation, university students’ study groups, and academic office hour consultations. The findings show that, overall, be like and go are well established across these registers, while be all is still rather uncommon. In addition, all new quotatives consistently occur more frequently in present tense, while the traditional quotative say is more frequent in the past. The analyses of the patterns of use of the quotatives with different grammatical subjects and of the discourse functions of the quotation support the hypothesis that be like is expanding in American English.