| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 344 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in English language |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Reported speech and evidentiality -- Prime Minister's questions -- Data, transcription, and methodology -- Reporting clauses -- Reported clauses -- Reported speech and rhetorical structures -- Reported speech in recurrent courses of action -- Summary and conclusions |
| Summary |
"Language change in contemporary English represents a burgeoning field and has primarily been studied from a corpus-linguistic perspective since the mid-1990s (e.g., Hundt and Mair 1999; Leech et al. 2009; Mair 2006; Mair and Leech 2006). Despite relevant article-length investigations on historical recordings from the perspectives of Historical Pragmatics (Jucker and Landert 2015) and Conversation Analysis (Clayman and Heritage 2002a; Clayman et al. 2006, 2007; Heritage and Clayman 2013), as well as the acknowledgement of the need for historical spoken corpora in Interactional Linguistics (e.g., Barth-Weingarten 2014; Couper-Kuhlen 2011), questions of recent change in interactional English have nevertheless remained under-researched to date. Because of the lack of suitable recordings, the historical study of recent change in spoken English was not considered to be a methodologically feasible research direction even as little as a decade ago (e.g., Mair 2006: 21). Against this backdrop, the present study breaks new ground in analysing evolving practices in spoken English (here forms of reported speech) based on authentic recordings from different periods"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2021) |
| Subject |
English language -- Indirect discourse.
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Linguistic change -- Great Britain
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Legislators -- Great Britain -- Language
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Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Language
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English language -- Indirect discourse
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Legislators -- Language
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Linguistic change
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021001528 |
| ISBN |
9781108869898 |
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1108869890 |
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