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The expression ‘Like ’ has a wide variety of uses among English and American speakers. It may describe preference, as in (1) She likes mint chip ice cream. It may be used as a vehicle of comparison, as in (2) Trieste is like Minsk on steroids. Sometimes it is used among American adolescents as quasi-quotational device that reenacts a private or public drama, as in (3) She was like, we need to get out of here fast. 1 And sometimes it used scattershot by said adolescents (and others) as a hedging discourse particle (cf. Sigel 2002), as in (4) He got, like, eight job offers in his fourth year of grad school. Each of these uses raises distinct theoretical issues: What exactly is the second relatum of the preferential ‘like’? Does the ‘like ’ of comparison express a constant, trivial relation or a contextually variable, restricted one? How do the possible objects of quotational ‘like ’ differ from those for standard quotation? How does
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