Arendholz Jenny, Bublitz Wolfram, Kirner-Ludwig Monika (eds.) The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then

Mouton de Gruyter, 2015. — 437 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 89). — ISBN 978-3-11-043175-9, e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-042756-1, e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-042762-2.This volume offers a fresh view on quoting in old and new texts. In showing timeless similarities and key differences, its authors adopt both synchronic and diachronic perspectives to pinpoint the formal and functional evolution of quoting and to trace trends in linguistic variation.Wolfram Bublitz
Introducing Quoting as a Ubiquitous Meta-communicative Act
Quoting Now
Daniela Landert
Reportable Facts and a Personal Touch: The Functions of Direct Quotes in
Online News
Jenny Arendholz
Quoting in Online Message Boards: An Interpersonal Perspective
Birte Bös and Sonja Kleinke
The Complexities of Thread-internal Quoting in English and German Online Discussion Fora
Anita Fetzer and Elisabeth Reber
Quoting in Political Discourse: Professional Talk Meets Ordinary Postings
Andreas Musolff
Quotation and Online Identity: The Voice of Tacitus in German Newspapers and Internet Discussions
Rita Finkbeiner
“Ich kenne da so einen Jungen … kennen ist gut, wir waren halt mal zusammen weg.” On the Pragmatics and Metapragmatics of X ist gut in German
Jörg Meibauer
Only “nur”. Scare Quoted (Exclusive) Focus Particles at the Semantics/
Pragmatics Interface
Klaus P. Schneider
Manufacturing Credibility: Academic Quoting Across Cultures
Quoting Then
Karin Aijmer
Quotative Markers in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760
Colette Moore
Histories of Talking about Talk: Quethen, Quoth, Quote
Winfried Rudolf
Quoting and Translating Latin in the Old English Homilies of the
Vercelli Book
Monika Kirner-Ludwig and Iris Zimmermann
Quoting and Plagiarising – Concepts of Both Now and Then?
Jenny Arendholz and Monika Kirner-Ludwig
In-between Cognitively Isolated Quotes and References: Looking for
Answers Lurking in Textual Margins
Ursula Lutzky
Quotations in Early Modern English Witness Depositions
Alison Johnson
Haunting Evidence: Quoting the Prisoner in 19th Century Old Bailey Trial Discourse. The Defences of Cooper (1842) and McNaughten (1843)
Bettina Lindner
Quotations from 17th and 18th Century Medical Case Reports
About the Authors
Index of Subjects