This is one of the most frequent functions listed in the literature on like.

 

Herb



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	Subject: Re: Another "like" newspaper article

	

	



	Access to the WSJ article is by subscription only, so I couldn't read

	it. I just don't have time to look at the Star article.

	

	Does either article refer to the discourse function of 'like' as an

	introducer of new information? If you listen carefully, when only one

	'like' appears in a sentence, it often precedes the new information in

	the sentence.  "My Mom has, like, a million pairs of shoes." I'm pretty

	sure I've heard about research on this, but I haven't seen it directly.

	I'll post a query to FUNKNET.

	

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