Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation (PDF)

Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind i...

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Main Author:	Ruth Finnegan
Format:	Default Book
Published:	2011
Subjects:	cultural anthropology cultural history English folklore imitation language oral literature oral traditions originality plagiarism quotation quotation marks Quoting sociolinguistics
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25958440.v1
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