Quoting in parliamentary question time : exploring recent change /

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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reber, Elisabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Studies in English language.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Reported speech and Evidentiality
  • Prime Minister's Questions
  • Data, Transcription, and Methodology
  • Reporting Clauses
  • Reported Clauses
  • Reported Speech and Rhetorical Structures
  • Reported Speech in Recurrent Courses of Action
  • Summary and Conclusions.