Brock, a Temple Univ linguist published research on this topic about a
year ago, causing heated discussions among my grammar students. Here's
one of the references to her research:
http://blogs.salon.com/0001381/stories/2002/11/05/theSemanticsOfilikei.html
Beth Young
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Bill, I enjoyed this article, and my (community college) students will
also. I was interested in the mention of the linguists' argument that
"like" and other filler words confer some advantages: they gain the
speaker a moment to gather thoughts, they seem to encourage more complex
sentences, and they discourage listeners from interrupting. About the
last two points, the article refers to "studies," and if anyone knows of
such research, I would be interested (I can be reached off-list at
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Brock
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Subject: Language article on "Like" in WSJ online
The online version of the Wall Street Journal has an article on
the use of 'like' for, like, every other, like, word. Particularly
interesting is the fact that apparently some speech pathologists are
charging $100 an hour or so for the kind of speech intervention that
anyone with even a mild sadistic streak could do. I realize this might
be a bit off-topic, but I thought it could be used as a discussion item
in middle- or high-school grammar classes. I'm pasting a link to it
below.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB107577318033518819-Ihje4Nolah3m5uraHyGa6mAm5,00.html
Bill Spruiell
Dept. of English
Central Michigan University
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