The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then /

The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then / / ed. by Jenny Arendholz, Wolfram Bublitz, Monika Kirner-Ludwig.

In examining the phenomenon of "ing from multiple angles, The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then offers a fresh view on the forms, functions and usage of "ing as a meta-communicative act in various forms of old (printed) and new (electronically mediated) communication, setting it apart fro...

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MitwirkendeR:
Aijmer, Karin,
Arendholz, Jenny,
Bublitz, Wolfram,
Bös, Birte,
Fetzer, Anita,
Finkbeiner, Rita,
Johnson, Alison,
Kirner-Ludwig, Monika,
Kleinke, Sonja,
Landert, Daniela,
Lindner, Bettina,
Lutzky, Ursula,
Meibauer, Jörg,
Moore, Colette,
Musolff, Andreas,
Reber, Elisabeth,
Rudolf, Winfried,
Schneider, Klaus P.,
Zimmermann, Iris,
HerausgeberIn:
Arendholz, Jenny,
Bublitz, Wolfram,
Kirner-Ludwig, Monika,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 89
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Physical Description:1 online resource (428 p.)
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Table of 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

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