Why do we quote? : the culture and history of quotation /

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"This fascinating book examines the ways in which we quote today and the curious history of how quoting became part of our everyday lives. Quoting provides a link to our loved ones ("as my mother used to say ... "), to our religious and literary heritage, to past wisdom and to current...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finnegan, Ruth H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2011.
Temas:
Quotation.
Quotations > History.
Quotation > Social aspects.
Citation.
Citations > Histoire.
Citation > Aspect social.
Anthropology.
Language.
Language: reference and general.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
REFERENCE > Quotations.
Quotation
Quotations
Quoting
Plagiarism
Iimitation
Originality
Quotation marks
Cultural history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. SETTING THE PRESENT SCENE
  • 1. Prelude: A Dip in Quoting's Ocean
  • 2. Tastes of the Present: The Here and Now of Quoting
  • 'Here and now'?
  • What are people quoting today?
  • Gathering and storing quotations
  • 3. Putting Others' Words on Stage: Arts and Ambiguities of Today's Quoting
  • Signalling quotation
  • When to quote and how
  • To quote or not to quote
  • So why quote?
  • II. BEYOND THE HERE AND NOW
  • 4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future
  • What are quote marks and where did they come from?
  • What do they mean?
  • Do we need them?
  • 5. Harvesting Others' Words: The Long Tradition of Quotation Collections
  • A present-day example: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
  • 6. Quotation in Sight and Sound
  • Quoting and writing
  • inseparable twins?
  • The wealth of oral quotation
  • Quoting blossoms in performance
  • Music, script and image
  • 7. Arts and Rites of Quoting
  • Frames for others' words and voices
  • Narrative and its plural voices
  • Poetry
  • Exposition and rhetoric
  • Ritual and sacred texts
  • Play
  • Displayed text
  • An array of quoting arts
  • How do the thousand flowers grow and who savours them?
  • 8. Controlling Quotation: The Regulation of Others' Words and Voices
  • Who plants and guards the flowers? Imitation, authorship, and plagiarism
  • Constraining and allowing quotation: flower or weed?
  • The fields where quoting grows
  • III. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE
  • 9. What Is Quotation and Why Do We Do It?
  • So what is it?
  • The far and near of quoting
  • Why quote?
  • Appendices
  • Quoting the Academics Background to this study: citing the authorities Academics quoting
  • - List of the Mass Observation Writers.

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