LIN 4340 Lecture 12: Quotatives and Interpretation of Results
11 Feb 2019
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Problems noticed: people frequently coding the like" as a token of be like, when that was not the case. There are also tokens nathalie noticed that weren"t actually quotes sayings, etc. ; not reported speech, have to be careful that these are actually quotes and not indirect speech. Tokens are very tricky, can vary from person to person. These debatable tokens have to be dealt with; if you decide to include them you need to be consistent about why you"re including them, and apply this consistently throughout the data. If something is ambiguous, you really really don"t know what to do, exclude the token from the data. Go is on the decline, used to be a big variant but not anymore; we can see that all these variants are shifting around to accommodate for be like. We need to look at alllllll the data, not just comparing two people. How you tabulate the results/interpret the results will mean something different.
