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urn:uuid:4f7f2103-6569-48fc-b782-00d0e724386a 03 15 9781906924355 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation 1 A01 Ruth Finnegan <p>Ruth Finnegan FBA OBE was born in 1933 in the beautiful fraught once-island city of Derry, Northern Ireland, and brought up there, together with several magical years during the war in Donegal. She had her education at the little Ballymore First School in County Donegal, Londonderry High School, Mount (Quaker) School York, then first class honours in Classics (Literae humaniores) and a doctorate in Anthropology at Oxford. This was followed by fieldwork and university teaching in Africa, principally Sierra Leone and Nigeria. She then joined the pioneering Open University as a founding member of the academic staff, where she spent the rest of her career apart from three years – and more fieldwork – at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and is now, proudly, an Open University Emeritus Professor. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996, and is also an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.</p> 01 eng 00 350 03 12 CB 10 LAN000000 23 Linguistics 04 PN171.Q6 23 Quoting 23 Anthropology 12 JHMC 23 plagiarism 10 SOC002010 23 imitation 10 SOC011000 23 originality 23 quotation marks 23 cultural history 23 cultural anthropology 23 quotation 23 language 23 English 23 folklore 23 sociolinguistics 23 oral traditions 23 oral literature 01 06 03 00 <p>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'.</p> 04 00 Preface I. SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE 1. Prelude: a dip in quoting’s ocean 2. Tastes of the present: the here and now of quoting 3. Putting others’ words on stage: arts and ambiguities of today’s quoting II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW 4. Quotation marks present, past, and future 5. Harvesting others’ words: the long tradition of quotation collections 6. Quotation in sight and sound 7. Arts and rites of quoting 8. Controlling quotation: the regulation of others’ words and voices III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE 9. What is quotation and why do we do it? Appendix 1: Quoting the academics Appendix 2. List of the Mass Observation writers References Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20110301 02 WORLD 06 15 9781906924331 06 15 9781906924348 06 15 9781906924355 06 15 9781800644397 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01