like
that thing
, preposition,
a second hand
car or anything
like
that
, and conjunction,
like
I just did
, is excluded from items
with the potential to function as hedges, there are 52 occurrences of
like
in SettCorp,
47 of which are clause final, 19 of which function as hedges. Extract (8.1)
demonstrates the use of
like
, in bold,
as a hedge:
(8.1 SC)
Very tashty. Jimmy see what‟s in Nottingham will you?
I‟m lookin for it.
Nottingham?
Nothing.
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COLT consists of roughly 500,000 words of spontaneous conversations between 13-17 year-old
boys and girls from socially different school districts (see Stenström, 1994).
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