Quotatives considers the phenomenon “quotation” from a wealth of perspectives. It consolidates findings from different strands of research, combining formal and functional approaches for the definition of reported discourse and situating the phenomenon in a broader typological and sociolinguistic perspective. Provides an interface between sociolinguistic research and other linguistic disciplines, in particular discourse analysis, typology, construction grammar but also more formal approaches Incorporates innovative methodology that draws on discourse analytic, typological and sociolinguistic approaches Investigates the system both in its diachronic development as well as via cross–variety comparisons Presents careful definition of the envelope of variation and considers alternative definitions of the phenomenon “quotation” Empirical findings are reported from distribution and perception data, which allows comparing and contrasting perception and reality INDICE: Acknowledgements vii List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii 1 Introduction: What’s New about the New Quotatives? 1 The History of Innovative Quotatives 4 Why? 12 2 You Can Quote Me On That: Defining Quotation 34 Defining Quotation 37 Direct versus Indirect Quotes 55 Why Does itMatter? The Ramifications of Variable Definition 64 3 Variation and Change in the Quotative System: The Global versus the Local 89 Tracing the Global Attestation of Innovative Quotatives 90 Investigating Models of Diffusion 93 Investigating the Global Reality of Innovative Quotatives 97 Putting It All Together 134 4 Quotation across the Generations: A Short History of Speech and Thought Reporting 148 Tracing Quotation in Tyneside English across the Past 60 Years 150 Quotations across the Decades: Tracing the Changes in the Variable Grammar 166 How to Create Variability in a Low Entropy System? 183 5 Ideologies and Attitudes to Newcomer Quotatives 198 Don’t Sound Stupid, Stop Saying like 198 Language Ideologies: Facts and Fiction 202 Testing Attitudes towards the Innovative Quotatives 207 What Type of Person would use such a Form? Testing Associations with Personality Traits 210 Where do be like and go come from? Investigating the Perceptual Geographies of Innovative Quotatives 221 Social Perceptions Associated with be like and go 227 Youth Inarticulateness and the Pedagogical Debate 234 6 Lessons Learned from Research on Quotation 245 The Innovative Quotatives: A New, Uniform and Unique Phenomenon? 245 The Elephant in the Room: Situating Quotation in Linguistic Modularity 251 Tackling Some Illusions 256 Tracing the Present and Future of Quotative Forms 258 Conclusion 270 Appendix 1 Linear Regression Analysis Investigating the Conditioning Factors on the Quotative System in the US and the UK 278 Appendix 2 Alternative Cross–Tabulations 279 Appendix 3 Social Attitudes Survey 284 Index 295
- ISBN: 978-0-470-65718-8
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés