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Why Do We Quote?: The Culture and History of Quotation

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dc.creator Finnegan, Ruth (Author)
dc.date 2011
dc.date.accessioned 2020-02-25T15:37:17Z
dc.date.available 2020-02-25T15:37:17Z
dc.identifier http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/75
dc.identifier https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:14490
dc.identifier ISBN: 9781906924348
dc.identifier DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0012
dc.identifier.uri https://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/32514
dc.identifier.uri http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/75
dc.identifier.uri https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0012.pdf
dc.description 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-cultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing definitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as 'imitation', 'allusion', 'authorship', 'originality' and 'plagiarism'.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Open Book Publishers
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
dc.subject Quoting
dc.subject plagiarism
dc.subject imitation
dc.subject originality
dc.subject quotation marks
dc.subject cultural history
dc.subject cultural anthropology
dc.subject quotation
dc.subject language
dc.subject English
dc.subject folklore
dc.subject sociolinguistics
dc.subject oral traditions
dc.subject oral literature
dc.title Why Do We Quote?: The Culture and History of Quotation
dc.type book


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