Why Do We Quote?
The Culture and History of Quotation
by Ruth Finnegan
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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'. 
Book Description
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'.
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Table of Contents
Part I
SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE
Chapter 1
Prelude: a dip in quoting's ocean
Chapter 2
Tastes of the present: the here and now of quoting
Chapter 3
Putting others' words on stage: arts and ambiguities of today's quoting
Part II
BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW
Chapter 4
Quotation marks present, past, and future
Chapter 5
Harvesting others' words: the long tradition of quotation collections
Chapter 6
Quotation in sight and sound
Chapter 7
Arts and rites of quoting
Chapter 8
Controlling quotation: the regulation of others' words and voices
Part III
DISTANCE AND PRESENCE
Chapter 9
What is quotation and why do we do it?
Appendix 1
Quoting the academics
Appendix 2
List of the Mass Observation writers
Book Details
Title
Why Do We Quote?
Subject
History
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Published
2011
Pages
350
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9781906924331
ISBN10
1906924333
ISBN13 Digital
9781906924355
ISBN10 Digital
190692435X
PDF Size
4.7 MB
License
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