Why Do We Quote? Read more. Contents Presentation About the author List of Illustrations. Abbreviations and Note on Sources. Setting the present scene 1. Beyond the here and now 4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future. Quotation in Sight and Sound. Arts and Rites of Quoting. Distance and presence 9. Appendix 1. Quoting the Academics.
Appendix 2. List of Mass Observation Writers. Ruth Finnegan. Series On the same subject By the same author. Altering Eye. Brownshirt Princess. Telling Tales. Barry Hough and Howard Davis.
The Sword of Judith. Kevin R. Privilege and Property. The Theatre of Shelley. See all. Linguistics Literature. Les mots de la Covid Blandine Pennec. Why Do We Quote? This is a rich and engaging work of outstanding scholarship. Scholars in sociolinguistics, literature, and folklore will recognize the importance of the book for their fields. General readers will find it just plain interesting. 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.
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'.
Preface I. Tastes of the present: the here and now of quoting 3. Quotation marks present, past, and future 5. Quotation in sight and sound 7. Arts and rites of quoting 8. Appendix 1: Quoting the academics Appendix 2. List of the Mass Observation writers References. Ruth Finnegan is Visiting Research Professor and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University where, as a founder member of the academic staff, she has spent much of her academic career.
Her publications have consistently been inspired by these overlapping literary, historical and anthropological backgrounds. She has published widely on aspects of communication and expression, especially oral performance, literacy, and music-making.
Publications, rooted in cultural anthropology but also drawing on a range of disciplinary traditions, include: Limba Stories and Story-Telling , ; Oral Literature in Africa, a new, revised edition of Oral Literature in Africa published by OBP is available here ; Modes of Thought joint ed. Tastes of the present: the here and now of quoting This and the following chapter lay out the major case study which the later chapters take as their point of departure.
Gathering and storing quotations 3. A present-day example: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Forerunners in the written western tradition Where did they come from? The wealth of oral quotation Quoting blossoms in performance Music, script and image 7.
Imitation, authors and plagiarism Constraining and allowing quotation: who and how? The far and near of human texts and voices Why quote?
She predicts that "the long reign of the weighty academic tome is nearing its end". You can read her full article here. The principle of a gradient insists upon diversity as the essential characteristic of quotation. Written for a broad readership by a respected scholar of, among other things, oral literature, Why Do We Quote?
Quotation, with its bedfellows imitation and allusion, is at least as old as written civilisation. Through ever-increasing distances from the present and the personal, this book from the innovative Open Book Publishers it can be read online for free works through the thicket surrounding the verbal and grammatical mechanics of quoting.
It has enlightening things to say about the Western tradition of compiling books of quotations. The verbal realisation of quotation is the core concern of the volume, which crosses academic and cultural disciplines with effectiveness and confidence.
Pulling from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, socio-linguistics, literary studies, and the ethnography of speaking, the book provides an absolutely fascinating look at why people in our society quote others and how we do it.
Created by Scott Hughes. Please tell us how to improve this website! Skip to content. Quick links. Official Review: Why do we quote? Forum rules Authors and publishers are not able to post replies in the review topics. Latest Review: Unmasked by Zach Rebackoff. Re: Official Review: Why do we quote? I'm sure that the author did quite a bit of research on this one, and I have no doubt she is very well educated.
Nevertheless, this just isn't a subject that I am interested in. It sound more like a college textbook or a manual for professors than something to read for everyday use.
Thanks, but my list is too long to add something like this to it. Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. I can't imagine reading a whole book about quotations. Plus a grammar book with grammatical issues?
I'm going to pass, but I'm sure this book has a place for a certain audience. Thank You. Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. Furthermore, the author's extensive vocabulary is impressive, but I think she should have matched her writing with a general reading level. Every reader is not an English language professor. If some readers can't understand most words in a text, they'll become confused and even disconnected. It'll be quite distracting for a reader to be looking up the meaning of words in the dictionary every minute.
An academic volume should be easily understood by any person who chooses to read it. Anyway, this work is a mine of helpful information, and now, I know a lot about quotes. If you don't like complex books, then this particular one is not for you. Thanks for the review. The topic is refreshing and I am sure there is a lot to learn from this book. I will, however, give it a miss. The author sounds vast in knowledge, however, this is not a subject I am interested in.
Thanks for your review. A book about the use of about quotations sounds intriguing. The author defines citations, explores their uses, and highlights their importance. It does look like the author put a lot of effort into this book.
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