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Publication details [#34551]
Blyth, Carl S., Jenny Wang and Sigrid Recktenwald. 1990. I'm like, 'Say what?!: A new quotative in American oral narrative. American Speech 65 (3) : 215–227. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN
0003-1283
Annotation
This paper deals with the use of the word like in conjunction with the stative verb be as a quotative in American English discourse.