Alexandra D'Arcy, Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context - Eight hundred years of LIKE

Abstract

A review of Alexandra D'Arcy's monograph focussing on the phenomenon of the pragmatic uses of the word "like". The study encompases the diachronic and synchronic development of the word, social contexts of its use and addressess the many misconceptions that surround this phenomenon.

Keywords

• review
• like
• pragmatics
• variation and change
• grammaticalization
• discourse analysis