Quotations and their co(n)texts : Corpus-based insights into discoursing with Hamlet
Series
Ranam
Type
book section
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Abstract
The HyperHamlet database which is being developed at the English Department of the University of Basel confirms the intuition that literary quotations come in many shapes, and that readers may perceive them even if they do not know the source text. The paper focuses on the ways of signalling the presence of an extraneous string of words, and in particular discusses variants of clues offered by the embedding co(n)text. This includes obvious markers such as quotation tags or typographical elements, but also more implicit phenomena such as marking by genre, marking by deviance, or multiple marking. One conclusion is the necessity of contextualizing the importance of quotation marks, which are often discussed as the defining criterion of quotations, predetermining the data sets selected for investigation. This wide-spread approach, however, limits insight, since other unambiguous markers may co-occur with or even substitute quotation marks.
Language
English
Keywords
phraseology shakespeare quotation english literature linguistics
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Book title
Hamm, Albert; Higgs, Lyndon (eds). Variability and change in language and discourse
Publisher
Univ. des Sciences Humaines
Publisher place
Strassbourg
Volume
41
Start page
141
End page
155
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
251564