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urn:uuid:4f7f2103-6569-48fc-b782-00d0e724386a 03 01 01 urn:uuid:4f7f2103-6569-48fc-b782-00d0e724386a 15 9781906924355 06 10.11647/OBP.0012 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ 01 01 Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation 1 A01 Ruth Finnegan First edition. 01 eng 00 350 03 12 CB 10 LAN000000 B2 Linguistics 04 PN171.Q6 B2 Anthropology 12 JHMC 10 SOC002010 10 SOC011000 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 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20110301 2011 06 15 9781906924331 06 15 9781906924348 06 15 9781906924355 06 15 9781800644397 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0012 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0012.pdf 99 01