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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:16:20
From: Sixta Quaßdorf [sixta.quassdorf at unibas.ch]
Subject: ''A little more than kin'' - Quotations as a linguistic phenomenon : a study based on quotations from Shakespeare's Hamlet

 
Institution: Universität Basel 
Program: English Department 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2016 

Author: Sixta D. Quaßdorf

Dissertation Title: "A little more than kin" - Quotations as a linguistic
phenomenon : a study based on quotations from Shakespeare's 
Hamlet 

Dissertation URL:  https://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/10943

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Dissertation Director(s):
Annelies Häcki Buhofer
Heike Behrens

Dissertation Abstract:

Quotations ''oscillate between the occasional and the conventional'' as
Burger/Buhofer/Sialm (1982) once succinctly formulated. This thesis explores
precisely this ''oscillating'' character of quotations: It discusses the
nature of quotations and the relationship between common quotations and
phraseology from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Shakespeare's
<i>Hamlet</i> was chosen as a canonical text whose frequently quoted traces
can be followed across centuries. 
Scholarly work from various disciplines leads to an understanding of
quotations as moving in a space created by the two dimensions of reference and
repetition: Quotations are definable by a horizontal communicative axis
(reference) and a vertical, intertextual axis of manifest lineages of use
(repetition). Empirically, the data led to a categorisation of quotations as
verbal, thematic and onomastic, based on the question ''what has been
repeated: words, themes or names?'' Case studies further corroborate the
proposition that verbal quotations may become (almost) ordinary multi-word
units if the following conditions are met: a) they lose their referential
dimension, b) they develop formal and/or semantic usage patterns and/or c)
they are no longer limited to their original, literary discourse.




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