Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time - Elisabeth Reber

Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time

Exploring Recent Change

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83597-8 (ISBN)
124,70 inkl. MwSt
This pioneering study explores how the practices of quoting have shifted at parliamentary question time due to changing conventions and an evolving media landscape. It is aimed at scholars and students interested in linguistic change, reported speech and evidentiality in English, embodied interaction, Construction Grammar and political discourse.
Why do recordings of speakers engaging in reported speech at British Prime Minister's Questions from the 1970s–80s sound so distant to us? This cutting-edge study explores how the practices of quoting have changed at parliamentary question time in light of changing conventions and an evolving media landscape. Comparing data from authentic audio and video recordings from 1978 to 1988 and from 2003 to 2013, it provides evidence for qualitative and quantitative changes at the micro level (e.g., grammaticalisation processes in the reporting clause) and in more global structures (e.g., rhetorical patterns, and activities). These analytic findings contribute to the theoretical modelling of evidentiality in English, our understanding of constructions, interaction, and change, and of PMQs as an evolving community of practice. One of the first large-scale studies of recent change in an interactional genre of English, this ground-breaking monograph offers a framework for a diachronic interactional (socio-) linguistic research programme.

Elisabeth Reber is a senior lecturer, University of Würzburg, and currently a replacement professor in English Linguistics, University of Heidelberg. Her work focuses on Interactional (Socio-)Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and Multimodality. She has published the monograph Affectivity in Interaction (2012), numerous co-edited volumes, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

1. Introduction; 2. Reported speech and evidentiality; 3. Prime Minister's questions; 4. Data, transcription and methodology; 5. Reporting clauses; 6. Reported clauses; 7. Reported speech and rhetorical structures; 8. Reported speech in recurrent courses of action; 9. Summary and conclusions; Appendix A; Appendix B.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in English Language
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 670 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-108-83597-X / 110883597X
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83597-8 / 9781108835978
Zustand Neuware
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