30.406, Books: 'And I Quote...': Knowles

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Subject: 30.406, Books: 'And I Quote...': Knowles

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 12:31:52
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: 'And I Quote...': Knowles

 


Title: 'And I Quote...' 
Subtitle: A History of Using Other People's Words 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/and-i-quote-9780198766759 


Author: Elizabeth Knowles

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198766759 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 25.00


Abstract:

Quotations are an essential part of the fabric of the language. In And I
quote, Elizabeth Knowles draws on her experience editing the Oxford Dictionary
of Quotations and employs a wide repertoire of examples, ranging from the
classical canon to contemporary popular culture, to illuminate just how and
why we quote. 

Her investigation focuses on how we find, choose, and use quotations in 21st
century English, but it also leads her back in time to follow the journeys
taken by individual quotes, as their meaning changes subtly - and sometimes
not so subtly - over the decades and in many cases the centuries. In following
the often-surprising stories of individual quotations, we gain an
understanding of how they establish themselves, and to what degree they can
develop a life independent of their original coinage.

Everyone has their own quotations 'vocabulary', and each reader of the book
will think of further items that they would use and wish to explore, but the
journeys mapped here illuminate the many fascinating ways in which quotations
have embedded themselves in the language, from the earliest dictionaries of
quotations to the online world we experience today.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=132575




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