32.2906, Books: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Reber

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Subject: 32.2906, Books: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Reber

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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:12:41
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Reber

 


Title: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time 
Subtitle: Exploring Recent Change 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/quoting-parliamentary-question-time-exploring-recent-change?format=HB 


Author: Elisabeth Reber

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108835978 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108835978 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108835978 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

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.
 



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.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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