Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: What's New about the New Quotatives? -- The History of Innovative Quotatives -- Why? -- Chapter 2 You Can Quote Me On That: Defining Quotation -- Defining Quotation -- Direct versus Indirect Quotes -- (i) Typology -- (ii) Vantage point/Deictic orientation -- (iii) Formal characteristics -- (iv) Performative/mimetic features -- Why Does it Matter? The Ramifications of Variable Definition -- Direct repetition -- Reporting of inner states and mental activity -- Chapter 3 Variation and Change in the Quotative System: The Global versus the Local -- Tracing the Global Attestation of Innovative Quotatives -- Investigating Models of Diffusion -- Investigating the Global Reality of Innovative Quotatives -- Describing the patterning of quotative variants across the English-speaking world -- The diachronic dimension of global spread: What happens 15 years later? -- Putting It All Together -- Chapter 4 Quotation across the Generations: A Short History of Speech and Thought Reporting -- Tracing Quotation in Tyneside English across the Past 60 Years -- Establishing the inventory of forms between the 1960s and the 2000s -- Revisiting skewed data: implications for historical analysis -- Delimiting the starting point: tapping into the variable grammar of the 1960s/70s -- The development of an age effect -- Quotations across the Decades: Tracing the Changes in the Variable Grammar -- Investigating changes between the 1960s/70s TLS and the 1990s PVC -- Investigating changes between the 1990s PVC and the 2000s NECTE -- How to Create Variability in a Low Entropy System? -- Chapter 5 Ideologies and Attitudes to Newcomer Quotatives -- Don't Sound Stupid, Stop Saying like.

Language Ideologies: Facts and Fiction -- Testing Attitudes towards the Innovative Quotatives -- What Type of Person would use such a Form? Testing Associations with Personality Traits -- Where do be like and go come from? Investigating the Perceptual Geographies of Innovative Quotatives -- Social Perceptions Associated with be like and go -- Youth Inarticulateness and the Pedagogical Debate -- Chapter 6 Lessons Learned from Research on Quotation -- The Innovative Quotatives: A New, Uniform and Unique Phenomenon? -- The Elephant in the Room: Situating Quotation in Linguistic Modularity -- Tackling Some Illusions -- Tracing the Present and Future of Quotative Forms -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Linear Regression Analysis Investigating the Conditioning Factors on the Quotative System in the US and the UK -- Appendix 2 Alternative Cross-Tabulations -- Appendix 3 Social Attitudes Survey -- Index.