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"Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near. Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan's fascinating study sets our present conventions into cross-cultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing definitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as 'imitation', 'allusion', 'authorship', 'originality' and 'plagiarism'."--Publisher's website.
Quotation. --- Allusions --- Quotation --- Authorship. --- Languages --- Foreign languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- cultural anthropology --- imitation --- oral traditions --- quotation --- cultural history --- folklore --- quotation marks --- english --- plagiarism --- language --- quoting --- sociolinguistics --- originality --- oral literature --- Erasmus --- Latin
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In examining the phenomenon of quoting from multiple angles, The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then offers a fresh view on the forms, functions and usage of quoting as a meta-communicative act in various forms of old (printed) and new (electronically mediated) communication, setting it apart from (seemingly) related acts like repeating or referring. Recent interest in the formal (copy-paste quoting) and ethical (quoting as plagiarizing) aspects of quoting has been gaining considerable momentum in linguistics (and other disciplines), predominantly fuelled by enormous technological progress and the impact on both the procedure of quoting itself and its appraisal in public discourse. Embracing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, the authors pay special tribute to the inherent complementarity of both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. With contributions pinpointing the formal and functional evolution of quoting and tracing trends in linguistic variation, this volume brings together interpersonal pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical, cognitive and text linguistics as well as cultural studies. In this way, the present title provides a more comprehensive and integral understanding of the nature of quoting.
E-books --- Pragmatics --- Pragmatique. --- Quotation. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Sociolinguistics. --- Citation --- Pragmatique --- Actes de parole --- Interrogatif --- Variation (Linguistique) --- Sociolinguistique --- History. --- Interrogative. --- Variation --- History --- Histoire --- Comparative linguistics. --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Pragmatics - Congresses --- Context. --- Evaluation. --- Multimodality. --- Quoting.
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