事例：談話標識の like

コメント欄の補足です．たとえば，以下に引用したのは17歳の高校生（女性）の発話ですが，こういう喋り方はある種のステレオタイプを喚起させるように思います：

For me I know with MySpace and Facebook because a lot of my friends are adults on there I work with, or like older people I've worked with, I always feel like I have to maintain a very professional -- like I don't have like really -- I don't have any inappropriate pictures on either. And like I am very simple because I don't want to like -- yeah, I don't -- you don't want strangers to look at my profile and -- I don't know. I just want to give a very simple and accurate, like, presentation of who I am.... I personally am very like, you know, I'm very careful about what I put on MySpace and Facebook in like making sure that that's what -- that's who I feel I am.

(John Palfrey and Urs Gaser, Born Digital, Basic Books, 2008, pp. 30-31)

あるいは，これが「ふつう」なのかもしれません．詳しい方，ぜひご教示ください．

──それにしても使いすぎでしょう > like

■OALD (7th edition) の説明

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary では，この like を次のように解説しています：

adv. 1 used in very informal speech, for example when you are thinking what to say next, explaining sth, or giving an example of sth: It was, like, weird. ◇ It was kind of scary, like. ◇ It's really hard. Like I have no time for my own work.

2 I'm, he's, she's, etc. ~ used in very informal speech, to mean 'I say', 'he/she says', etc.: And then I'm like 'No way!'