TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finnegan, Ruth
AB  - 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'.
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0012
ID  - OAPEN ID: 646701
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 741648010
KW  - cultural anthropology
KW  - imitation
KW  - oral traditions
KW  - quotation
KW  - cultural history
KW  - folklore
KW  - quotation marks
KW  - english
KW  - plagiarism
KW  - language
KW  - quoting
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - originality
KW  - oral literature
KW  - Erasmus
KW  - Latin
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/1fca4a01-2591-4e1d-93c7-9c6fafc4e609/646701.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30311
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9781906924331
TI  - Why Do We Quote? : The Culture and History of Quotation
ER  - 
