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1. Reportable Facts and a Personal Touch: The Functions of Direct Quotes in Online News

  • Daniela Landert
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The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then
This chapter is in the book The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgements v
  3. Table of Contents vii
  4. Introducing Quoting as a Ubiquitous Meta-communicative Act 1
  5. Part I: Quoting Now
  6. 1. Reportable Facts and a Personal Touch: The Functions of Direct Quotes in Online News 29
  7. 2. Quoting in Online Message Boards: An Interpersonal Perspective 53
  8. 3. The Complexities of Thread-internal Quoting in English and German Online Discussion Fora 71
  9. 4. Quoting in Political Discourse: Professional Talk Meets Ordinary Postings 97
  10. 5. Quotation and Online Identity: The Voice of Tacitus in German Newspapers and Internet Discussions 125
  11. 6. “Ich kenne da so einen Jungen … kennen ist gut, wir waren halt mal zusammen weg.” On the Pragmatics and Metapragmatics of X ist gut in German 147
  12. 7. Only “nur”. Scare Quoted (Exclusive) Focus Particles at the Semantics/ Pragmatics Interface 177
  13. 8. Manufacturing Credibility: Academic Quoting Across Cultures 209
  14. Part II: Quoting Then
  15. 9. Quotative Markers in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 231
  16. 10. Histories of Talking about Talk: Quethen, Quoth, Quote 255
  17. 11. Quoting and Translating Latin in the Old English Homilies of the Vercelli Book 271
  18. 12. Quoting and Plagiarising – Concepts of Both Now and Then? 291
  19. 13. In-between Cognitively Isolated Quotes and References: Looking for Answers Lurking in Textual Margins 319
  20. 14. Quotations in Early Modern English Witness Depositions 343
  21. 15. Haunting Evidence: Quoting the Prisoner in 19th Century Old Bailey Trial Discourse. The Defences of Cooper (1842) and McNaughten (1843) 369
  22. 16. Quotations from 17th and 18th Century Medical Case Reports1 401
  23. About the Authors 419
  24. Index of Subjects 425
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