ANTHRO 33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Speech Community, Quotative, Inculturation
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Functions of be + like construction: very flexible, productive. See a dramatic rise in the use of quotative like and the use of enquoted material more generally. Form migrated from spoken uses to online written uses. Studying the relationship between spoken and written language. College students are a speech community in the u. s. with shared practices. Be + like is a preferential style. Mostly an informal register, but not always. Shared social and linguistic sensibility that speakers carry with them to other media. Quotative forms: ways that people embed reported speech: all reported speech is typified/paraphrased, not reported verbatim o. Reported speech is a division of labor between goffman"s animator and author. Computer mediated communication (cmc): communication where the use of language o in some way travels through some sort of computerized technology. Students reflect on their own reactions, speech, behavior, etc. to express things about o their identity. Can do more semantics than simply reported speech.
