Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time - Exploring Recent Change

Analysing data from 1978-1988 / 2003-2013, this book explores recent change in the practices of quoting at parliamentary question time.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Reber, Reber Elisabeth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781108799041
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79904-1
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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