Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
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Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time

Exploring Recent Change

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Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time

Exploring Recent Change

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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 to 1988 and from 2003 to 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 (socio-) linguistic research programme.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108872973
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Historical & Comparative Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Chapter 1 Introduction
  12. Chapter 2 Reported Speech and Evidentiality
  13. Chapter 3 Prime Minister’s Questions
  14. Chapter 4 Data, Transcription, and Methodology
  15. Chapter 5 Reporting Clauses
  16. Chapter 6 Reported Clauses
  17. Chapter 7 Reported Speech and Rhetorical Structures
  18. Chapter 8 Reported Speech in Recurrent Courses of Action
  19. Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions
  20. Appendix A  
  21. Appendix B
  22. References
  23. Index