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"A little more than kin" - Quotations as a linguistic phenomenon : a study based on quotations from Shakespeare's Hamlet
Authored Book (Verfasser eines eigenständigen Buches)
 
ID 3533259
Author(s) Quassdorf, Sixta
Author(s) at UniBasel Quassdorf, Sixta
Year 2016
Title "A little more than kin" - Quotations as a linguistic phenomenon : a study based on quotations from Shakespeare's Hamlet
Publisher Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg / Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
Place of Publication Freiburg
ISSN/ISBN 978-3-928969-63-5
Edition NIHIN - New Ideas in Human Interaction
Series title NIHIN Studies
Keywords Phraseology, Quotation Studies, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Text Linguistics, Shakespeare
Abstract Quotations "oscillate between the occasional and the conventional" as Burger/Buhofer/Sialm (1982) once succinctly formulated. Developed from a PhD thesis, this book explores precisely this "oscillating" character of quotations: It discusses the nature of quotations and the relationship between common quotations and phraseology from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Shakespeare's Hamlet was chosen as a canonical text whose frequently quoted traces can be followed across centuries. Scholarly work from various disciplines leads to an understanding of quotations as moving in a space created by the two dimensions of reference and repetition: Quotations are definable by a horizontal communicative axis (reference) and a vertical, intertextual axis of manifest lineages of use (repetition). Empirically, the data led to a categorisation of quotations as verbal, thematic and onomastic, based on the question "what has been repeated: words, themes or names?" Case studies further corroborate the proposition that verbal quotations may become (almost) ordinary multi-word units if the following conditions are met: a) they lose their referential dimension, b) they develop formal and/or semantic usage patterns and/or c) they are no longer limited to their original, literary discourse.
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.6094/978-3-928969-63-5
URL https://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/10943
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/43316/
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