Why do we quote? : the culture and history of quotation / Ruth Finnegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finnegan, Ruth H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quotation.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages.) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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'."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

I. SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE

1. Prelude: A Dip in Quoting's Ocean

2. Tastes of the Present: The Here and Now of Quoting

'Here and now'?

What are people quoting today?

Gathering and storing quotations

3. Putting Others' Words on Stage: Arts and Ambiguities of Today's Quoting

Signalling quotation

When to quote and how

To quote or not to quote

So why quote?

II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW

4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future

What are quote marks and where did they come from?

What do they mean?

Do we need them?

5. Harvesting Others' Words: The Long Tradition of Quotation Collections

A present-day example: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

6. Quotation in Sight and Sound

Quoting and writing

inseparable twins?

The wealth of oral quotation

Quoting blossoms in performance

Music, script and image

7. Arts and Rites of Quoting

Frames for others' words and voices

Narrative and its plural voices

Poetry

Exposition and rhetoric

Ritual and sacred texts

Play

Displayed text

An array of quoting arts

How do the thousand flowers grow and who savours them?

8. Controlling Quotation: The Regulation of Others' Words and Voices

Who plants and guards the flowers? Imitation, authorship, and plagiarism

Constraining and allowing quotation: flower or weed?

The fields where quoting grows

III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE

9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It?

So what is it?

The far and near of quoting

Why quote?

Appendices

Quoting the Academics Background to this study: citing the authorities Academics quoting

- List of the Mass Observation Writers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website ; viewed on 2020-04-27).

ISBN:

9781906924331

1906924333

9782821817128

2821817126

9781906924355

190692435X

OCLC:

923317961