Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time - Exploring Recent Change

Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Reber is a senior lecturer, University of Würzburg, and currently a replacement professor in English Linguistics, University of Heidelberg. Her work focuses on Interactional (Socio-)Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and Multimodality. She has published the monograph Affectivity in Interaction (2012), numerous co-edited volumes, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles. Zusammenfassung This pioneering study explores how the practices of quoting have shifted at parliamentary question time due to changing conventions and an evolving media landscape. It is aimed at scholars and students interested in linguistic change, reported speech and evidentiality in English, embodied interaction, Construction Grammar and political discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Reber, Reber Elisabeth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108835978
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83597-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Politics & government, Political science & theory, Language: history & general works, Politics and government, Historical & comparative linguistics, Political science and theory, Language: history and general works, Historical and comparative linguistics