Quotative LIKE in contemporary non standard English

I began my work in English linguistics by looking at concessive constructions. Since then I have had the opportunity to study concessive markers and indeed, discourse markers more generally. This line of research has inevitable led me to test the concepts and theoretical methods of the TOE against representations of transphrastic, argumentative meaning and also sociolinguistic, interactional meaning. It has led to wonder whether, to paraphrase the call for papers, such an approach might not s..