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Online-Ressource (xvi, 327 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781906924355
Content:
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 culturaland historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable cycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as 'imitation', 'allusion', 'authorship', 'originality' and 'plagiarism'.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- I. SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE -- 1. Prelude -- 2. Tastes of the Present -- 3. Putting Others' Words on Stage -- II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW -- 4. Quotation Marks -- 5. Harvesting Others' Words -- 6. Quotation in Sight and Sound -- 7. Arts and Rites of Quoting -- 8. Controlling Quotation -- III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE -- 9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It? -- Appendix 1. Quoting the Academics -- Appendix 2. List of Mass Observation Writers -- References -- Index.
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""Contents""; ""I. SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE""; ""1. Prelude""; ""2. Tastes of the Present""; ""3. Putting Others� Words on Stage""; ""II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW""; ""4. Quotation Marks""; ""5. Harvesting Others� Words""; ""6. Quotation in Sight and Sound""; ""7. Arts and Rites of Quoting""; ""8. Controlling Quotation""; ""III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE""; ""9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It?""; ""Appendix 1. Quoting the Academics""; ""Appendix 2. List of Mass Observation Writers""; ""References""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781906924355
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781906924348
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781906924331
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Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe Finnegan, Ruth H., 1933 - Why do we quote? Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2011 ISBN 9781906924348
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781906924331
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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