Why Do We Quote? : The Culture and History of Quotation
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind i...
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Main Author: | Finnegan, Ruth (auth) |
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Format: | Book Chapter |
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Open Book Publishers
2011
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