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Publication details [#49036]
Fox Tree, Jean E. and John M., Jr. Tomlinson. 2008. The Rise of Like in Spontaneous Quotations. Discourse Processes 45 (1) : 85–102. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper reveals an increase in the use of like (instead of said) as (spontaneous) enquoting device over the last decades in a wide range of quotation types.