| Description |
1 online resource (432 pages) |
| Series |
Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; volume 89 |
|
Topics in English linguistics ; 89.
|
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introducing Quoting as a Ubiquitous Meta-communicative Act -- Part I: Quoting Now -- 1. Reportable Facts and a Personal Touch: The Functions of Direct Quotes in Online News -- 2. Quoting in Online Message Boards: An Interpersonal Perspective -- 3. The Complexities of Thread-internal Quoting in English and German Online Discussion Fora -- 4. Quoting in Political Discourse: Professional Talk Meets Ordinary Postings -- 5. Quotation and Online Identity: The Voice of Tacitus in German Newspapers and Internet Discussions -- 6. "Ich kenne da so einen Jungen ... kennen ist gut, wir waren halt mal zusammen weg." On the Pragmatics and Metapragmatics of X ist gut in German -- 7. Only "nur". Scare Quoted (Exclusive) Focus Particles at the Semantics/ Pragmatics Interface -- 8. Manufacturing Credibility: Academic Quoting Across Cultures -- Part II: Quoting Then -- 9. Quotative Markers in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 -- 10. Histories of Talking about Talk: Quethen, Quoth, Quote -- 11. Quoting and Translating Latin in the Old English Homilies of the Vercelli Book -- 12. Quoting and Plagiarising -- Concepts of Both Now and Then? -- 13. In-between Cognitively Isolated Quotes and References: Looking for Answers Lurking in Textual Margins -- 14. Quotations in Early Modern English Witness Depositions -- 15. Haunting Evidence: Quoting the Prisoner in 19th Century Old Bailey Trial Discourse. The Defences of Cooper (1842) and McNaughten (1843) -- 16. Quotations from 17th and 18th Century Medical Case Reports1 -- About the Authors -- Index of Subjects |
| Summary |
<!Doctype html public ""-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en""> <html><head> <meta content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content=""mshtml 8.00.6001.23636""></head> <body> This volume offers a fresh view on quoting in old and new texts. In showing timeless similarities and key differences, its authors adopt both synchronic and diachronic perspectives to pinpoint the formal and functional evolution of quoting and to trace trends in linguistic variation. </body></html> |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Quotation.
|
|
Pragmatics -- History
|
|
Speech acts (Linguistics)
|
|
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative.
|
|
Language and languages -- Variation -- History
|
|
Sociolinguists
|
|
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
|
|
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative
|
|
Language and languages -- Variation
|
|
Pragmatics
|
|
Quotation
|
|
Speech acts (Linguistics)
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2015035102 |
| ISBN |
3110427567 |
|
9783110427561 |
|
9783110427578 |
|
3110427575 |
|
3110431750 |
|
9783110431759 |
|
