Why Do We Quote?
The Culture and History of Quotation
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 studie...
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- Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
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- Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
- Année d’édition : 2011
- Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 11 janvier 2013
- EAN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-906924-34-8
- EAN électronique : 978-1-906924-35-5
- Nombre de pages : 343 p.
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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’.
Ruth Finnegan is Visiting Research Professor and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and an Hon. Fellow of Somerville College Oxford in 1997; and was awarded an OBE for services to Social Sciences in 2000. Her publications include Limba Stories and Story-Telling 1967, 1981; Oral Literature in Africa, 1970; Modes of Thought (joint ed.), 1973; Oral Poetry, 1977, 1992); Information Technology: Social Issues (joint ed.), 1987; Literacy and Orality: Studies in the Technology of Communication, 1988; The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town, 1989 and 2007; Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts, 1992; South Pacific Oral Traditions (joint ed.), 1995; Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life, 1998; Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection, 2002; Participating in the Knowledge Society: Researchers Beyond the University Walls (ed.), 2005; The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa, 2007.
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