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Author:   Isabelle Buchstaller (Leipzig University, Germany)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9780470657188

ISBN 10:   0470657189
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   22 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii 1 Introduction: What’s New about the New Quotatives? 1 The History of Innovative Quotatives 4 Why? 12 2 You Can Quote Me On That: Defining Quotation 34 Defining Quotation 37 Direct versus Indirect Quotes 55 Why Does itMatter? The Ramifications of Variable Definition 64 3 Variation and Change in the Quotative System: The Global versus the Local 89 Tracing the Global Attestation of Innovative Quotatives 90 Investigating Models of Diffusion 93 Investigating the Global Reality of Innovative Quotatives 97 Putting It All Together 134 4 Quotation across the Generations: A Short History of Speech and Thought Reporting 148 Tracing Quotation in Tyneside English across the Past 60 Years 150 Quotations across the Decades: Tracing the Changes in the Variable Grammar 166 How to Create Variability in a Low Entropy System? 183 5 Ideologies and Attitudes to Newcomer Quotatives 198 Don’t Sound Stupid, Stop Saying like 198 Language Ideologies: Facts and Fiction 202 Testing Attitudes towards the Innovative Quotatives 207 What Type of Person would use such a Form? Testing Associations with Personality Traits 210 Where do be like and go come from? Investigating the Perceptual Geographies of Innovative Quotatives 221 Social Perceptions Associated with be like and go 227 Youth Inarticulateness and the Pedagogical Debate 234 6 Lessons Learned from Research on Quotation 245 The Innovative Quotatives: A New, Uniform and Unique Phenomenon? 245 The Elephant in the Room: Situating Quotation in Linguistic Modularity 251 Tackling Some Illusions 256 Tracing the Present and Future of Quotative Forms 258 Conclusion 270 Appendix 1 Linear Regression Analysis Investigating the Conditioning Factors on the Quotative System in the US and the UK 278 Appendix 2 Alternative Cross-Tabulations 279 Appendix 3 Social Attitudes Survey 284 Index 295

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These distinctive perspectives provide the readership with fresh food for thought on the exciting and important topic of quoting and quotatives, and with a more nuanced knowledge base as regards the linguistic properties, social uses and pragmatic functions. In brief, this volume is a treasure trove and highly recommended for those who are keen on communication studies, discourse analysis and sociology. (Discourse Studies, 1 January 2015)

Overall, the wide scope of this book means that it will be of interest not only to scholars of language variation and change and those working on the sociolinguistics of globalisation but also to researchers working on the study of reported speech within many other sub-disciplines of linguistics. (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20 March 2015) These distinctive perspectives provide the readership with fresh food for thought on the exciting and important topic of quoting and quotatives, and with a more nuanced knowledge base as regards the linguistic properties, social uses and pragmatic functions. In brief, this volume is a treasure trove and highly recommended for those who are keen on communication studies, discourse analysis and sociology. (Discourse Studies, 1 January 2015)

<p> Overall, the wide scope of this book means that it will be of interest not only to scholars of language variation and change and those working on the sociolinguistics of globalisation but also to researchers working on the study of reported speech within many other sub-disciplines of linguistics. (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20 March 2015) <p> These distinctive perspectives provide the readership with fresh food for thought on the exciting and important topic of quoting and quotatives, and with a more nuanced knowledge base as regards the linguistic properties, social uses and pragmatic functions. In brief, this volume is a treasure trove and highly recommended for those who are keen on communication studies, discourse analysis and sociology. (Discourse Studies, 1 January 2015)

<p> These distinctive perspectives provide the readership with fresh food for thought on the exciting and important topic of quoting and quotatives, and with a more nuanced knowledge base as regards the linguistic properties, social uses and pragmatic functions. In brief, this volume is a treasure trove and highly recommended for those who are keen on communication studies, discourse analysis and sociology. (Discourse Studies, 1 January 2015)

Author Information

Isabelle Buchstaller is professor for English at Leipzig University. Her research focuses on (morpho-) syntactic and discourse phenomena, including quotation, intensification and Northern English features, such as the Northern subject rule. Among her publications is Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (2012, with Ingrid van Alphen), which investigates quotation cross-linguistically from a wealth of disciplines.

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