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Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Exploring Recent Change

Hardback

Main Details

Title Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time: Exploring Recent Change
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Elisabeth Reber
SeriesStudies in English Language
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:280
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 159
Category/GenreLanguage - history and general works
linguistics
Historical and comparative linguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9781108835978
ClassificationsDewey:417.7
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 16 September 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Elisabeth Reber is a senior lecturer, University of Wurzburg, 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.