Hi, All,<div><br></div><div>Just a tangential comment on this discussion (generally good advice given, btw): I feel *very* uncomfortable with the original poster's implicit assumption that the APA manual is the 'go-to' choice. It is atrocious. The worst feature is that it mandates initialization of authors' names (eg: B. Reynolds), a useless, elitist and anti-academic practice (I have more epithets, and arguments, for those interested: see <a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/6/6-527.html" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/issues/6/6-527.html</a> (1995); btw, for those who may wonder why the only guy in the world named Fidelholtz feels so strongly about this, a few years after the URL mentioned, my son discovered on Google *another* Dr. James Fidelholtz (this one a *real* doctor, as it turns out, who publishes medical research and is not related)). There are other bad (and space-wasting!) aspects of the APA style 'sheet'-turned-fat-manual-complete-with-fat-workbook, but this rant has gone on long enough.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Recommendation: use the linguistic journal editors' list (relatively) new style sheet (see Linguist List for details--it's good, simple and clear), or if you must have a book: the Modern Language Association (MLA) style manual.</div>
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<div>Jim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> 3) it DOES make sense to provide the source in case of uncommon, rare,<br>
> biased etc. constructions just in order to give the reader at least a<br>
> /theoretical /chance to check the soundness of the argumentation the example<br>
> is used for,<br>
> 4) in case one intends to argue on basis of sb's usage (e.g. on a particular<br>
> /act of speech/) the source citation is appropriate.<br>
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</div>Personally, I go even further and cite sources where the quotation<br>
isn't particularly uncommon, rare, etc., but I think that at least in<br>
the situations that Zygmunt cites, it's best to give the source.<br>
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Kev<br>
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and<br>
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