Why Do We Quote?

The Culture and History of Quotation

Автор: Ruth Finnegan

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Open Book Publishers

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Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, a...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Ruth Finnegan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2011

страници

330

EAN

9781906924331

ISBN

9781906924331

Enbook ID

05351292

Издател

Open Book Publishers

Теглоt

516

Размери

157 x 234 x 20

Пълно описание

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 crosscultural 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 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'.

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