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The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] SeriesPublisher: Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (436 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110427561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and ThenDDC classification:
  • 401/.41
LOC classification:
  • P99.4 .P72
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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: The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
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Intro -- 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.

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

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