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Why Do We Quote? - The Culture and History of Quotation (Hardcover)
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Why Do We Quote? - The Culture and History of Quotation (Hardcover)
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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 cycling
across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in
literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing
defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing
so throws new light on ideas such as 'imitation', 'allusion',
'authorship', 'originality' and 'plagiarism'.
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