Quotatives

Isabelle Buchstaller is professor for English at Leipzig University. Her research focuses on (morpho-) syntactic and discourse phenomena, including quotation, intensification and Northern English features, such as the Northern subject rule. Among her publications is Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (2012, with Ingrid van Alphen), which investigates quotation cross-linguistically from a wealth of disciplines.

“Overall, the wide scope of this book means that it will be of interest not only to scholars of language variation and change and those working on the sociolinguistics of globalisation but also to researchers working on the study of reported speech within many other sub-disciplines of linguistics.”  (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20 March 2015)“These distinctive perspectives provide the readership with fresh food for thought on the exciting and important topic of quoting and quotatives, and with a more nuanced knowledge base as regards the linguistic properties, social uses and pragmatic functions.  In brief, this volume is a treasure trove and highly recommended for those who are keen on communication studies, discourse analysis and sociology.”  (Discourse Studies, 1 January 2015)

• Acknowledgements viiList of Figures xiList of Tables xiii1 Introduction: What’s New about the New Quotatives? 1The History of Innovative Quotatives 4Why? 122 You Can Quote Me On That: Defining Quotation 34Defining Quotation 37Direct versus Indirect Quotes 55Why Does itMatter? The Ramifications of Variable Definition 643 Variation and Change in the Quotative System: The Global versus the Local 89Tracing the Global Attestation of Innovative Quotatives 90Investigating Models of Diffusion 93Investigating the Global Reality of Innovative Quotatives 97Putting It All Together 1344 Quotation across the Generations: A Short History of Speech and Thought Reporting 148Tracing Quotation in Tyneside English across the Past 60 Years 150Quotations across the Decades: Tracing the Changes in the Variable Grammar 166How to Create Variability in a Low Entropy System? 1835 Ideologies and Attitudes to Newcomer Quotatives 198Don’t Sound Stupid, Stop Saying like 198Language Ideologies: Facts and Fiction 202Testing Attitudes towards the Innovative Quotatives 207What Type of Person would use such a Form? Testing Associations with Personality Traits 210Where do be like and go come from? Investigating the Perceptual Geographies of Innovative Quotatives 221Social Perceptions Associated with be like and go 227Youth Inarticulateness and the Pedagogical Debate 2346 Lessons Learned from Research on Quotation 245The Innovative Quotatives: A New, Uniform and Unique Phenomenon? 245The Elephant in the Room: Situating Quotation in Linguistic Modularity 251Tackling Some Illusions 256Tracing the Present and Future of Quotative Forms 258Conclusion 270Appendix 1 Linear Regression Analysis Investigating the Conditioning Factors on the Quotative System in the US and the UK 278Appendix 2 Alternative Cross-Tabulations 279Appendix 3 Social Attitudes Survey 284Index 295