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From: "Beth Young" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Language article on "Like" in WSJ online


> 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:
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http://blogs.salon.com/0001381/stories/2002/11/05/theSemanticsOfilikei.html
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> Beth Young
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> Dr. Beth Rapp Young
> Director, University Writing Center
> Associate Professor, English
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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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of
> Spruiell, William C
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> Subject: Language article on "Like" in WSJ online
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>         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.
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http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB107577318033518819-Ihje4Nolah3m5ura
HyGa6mAm5,00.html
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>         Bill Spruiell
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>         Dept. of English
>         Central Michigan University
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