Elisabeth Reber

Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Studies in English Language
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781108799041
• ISBN-10: 1108799043
• Artikelnr.: 72877035

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.