Elisabeth Reber

Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Recent Change

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do recordings of speakers engaging in reported speech at British Prime Minister's Questions from the 1970s-80s sound so distant to us? This cutting-edge study explores how the practices of quoting have changed at parliamentary question time in light of changing conventions and an evolving media landscape. Comparing data from authentic audio and video recordings from 1978-1988 and 2003-2013, it provides evidence for qualitative and quantitative changes at the micro level (e.g., grammaticalisation processes in the reporting clause) and in more global structures (e.g., rhetorical patterns, and activities). These analytic findings contribute to the theoretical modelling of evidentiality in English, our understanding of constructions, interaction, and change, and of PMQs as an evolving community of practice. One of the first large-scale studies of recent change in an interactional genre of English, this ground-breaking monograph offers a framework for a diachronic interactional sociolinguistic research programme.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108872973
• Artikelnr.: 66183472

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.