What does "quotative" mean?

A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".

Quotative

Common synonyms include: dialogue tag, like, like standard english, most evidential, quotational marker, quotative evidential.

adj, noun

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Noun

1
A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
2
A form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.

Adjective