"A little more than kin" - Quotations as a linguistic phenomenon : a study based on quotations from Shakespeare's Hamlet
Series
NIHIN - New Ideas in Human Interaction
ISBN
978-3-928969-63-5
Type
book
Date Issued
2016-05
Author(s)
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.
Language
English
Keywords
Phraseology
Quotation Studies
Corpus Linguistics
Pragmatics
Historical Linguistics
Text Linguistics
Shakespeare
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Publisher
Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg / Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
Publisher place
Freiburg i. Br.
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
252037
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SQ_DISS_published version.pdf
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6.09 MB
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