36.1610, Books: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Reber (2025)

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Subject: 36.1610, Books: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Reber (2025)

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Date: 20-May-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Reber (2025)


Title: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
Subtitle: Exploring Recent Change
Series Title: Studies in English Language
Publication Year: 20250417

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/quoting-parliamentary-question-time-exploring-recent-change?format=PB&isbn=9781108799041#about-the-authors

Author(s): Elisabeth Reber

Paperback ISBN:  9781108799041 Pages:  366 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781108799041 Pages:  366 Price: Europe EURO 29.17
Paperback ISBN:  9781108799041 Pages:  366 Price: U.S. $ 32.99

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.

Written In: English (eng)



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