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He's like ‘Do it now!’ and I'm like ‘No!’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2003

Stephen Levey
Affiliation:
England

Extract

Some innovative quotative usage among young people in London. In this article, Levey looks at its use in a south-eastern variety of English, specifically in narratives of personal experience by primary-school children in an outer London borough.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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