More on 'like':

CECILIA E FORD wrote:
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> Muffy Siegel.  2002. "like": the discourse particle and semantics.  Journal of semantices 19 35-71.
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> haven't read this but have heard summaries.  she had a teenage girl ask peers for a definition of a word - i think it was "individual" -- she analyzed the use of "like" in definitions and also noted differences in the use of like by females and males.
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> -Ceci
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