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t r e p m ‘Speaking’ Quotation Marks a L a n Martina Lampert i rt Martina Lampert a M ‘Speaking’ Quotation Marks This book offers in-depth qualitative case studies of 70 acts of quoting verbatim s ‘Speaking’ i performed by 16 U.S. speakers across a range of public settings. While their s y written versions unequivocally index the other voice via quotation marks, the l a video data drawn from the internet largely lack any non-verbal cues. Contrary n Quotation Marks to expectation, the quotations’ verbatimness is hardly ever translated into the A gradient media: It neither stands out by vocal parameters (pauses, pitch, or al intensity) when analyzed acoustically with Praat; nor are (manual) gestures, shift d o Toward a Multimodal Analysis of gaze, or body posture called on to serve as regular discriminating quoting m practices. In general, the other voice is effectively found backgrounded, if not i of Quoting Verbatim in English suppressed, in its oral performance, unless explicitly introduced by a digital t l u quotative. M A : s k The Author r Martina Lampert teaches English Linguistics at the JGU Mainz, Germany. She is a M the author of Attention and Recombinance: A Cognitive-Semantic Investigation into Morphological Compositionality in English and co-author of Linking up n o Cognitive Systems in Language: Attention and Force Dynamics. i t a t o u Q ’ g n i k a e p S ‘ 59996_Lampert_js_A5HCgr151x214 new globalL.indd 1 09.03.18 12:50 Martina Lampert ‘Speaking’ Quotation Marks Toward a Multimodal Analysis of Quoting Verbatim in English Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-‐nb.de. ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐59996-‐9 (Print) ·∙ E-‐ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐74773-‐5 (E-‐PDF) E-‐ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐74774-‐2 (EPUB) ·∙ E-‐ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐74775-‐9 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b.13406 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2018 All rights reserved. Peter Lang – Berlin ·∙ Bern ·∙ Bruxelles ·∙ New York ·∙ Oxford ·∙ Warszawa ·∙ Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-‐nb.de. For G. ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐59996-‐9 (Print) ·∙ E-‐ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐74773-‐5 (E-‐PDF) E-‐ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐74774-‐2 (EPUB) ·∙ E-‐ISBN 978-‐3-‐631-‐74775-‐9 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b.13406 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2018 All rights reserved. Peter Lang – Berlin ·∙ Bern ·∙ Bruxelles ·∙ New York ·∙ Oxford ·∙ Warszawa ·∙ Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Contents Part I: Theoretical Foundations .................................................................. 9 1 Quoting Verbatim in Public Speech .................................................... 11 2 Grounding Quotations .............................................................................. 23 2.1 ‘Received’ Regards on Quotations in Writing ......................................... 23 2.2 Zeroing in: Quoting in Speech .................................................................. 31 3 Framing Quotations ................................................................................... 43 3.1 The Data Base and Principles of its Selection .......................................... 44 3.2 Reconstructing the Causal Dynamics of Quoting .................................. 48 3.2.1 General Attention, Force Dynamics, and Gradience ..................... 49 3.2.2 Trigger, Target, and Concomitant ..................................................... 54 3.3 Advancing beyond the Verbal Repertoire ................................................ 62 3.3.1 The Vocal Dimension ......................................................................... 63 3.3.2 The Kinesic Dimension ...................................................................... 71 3.4 Principles and Parameters of a Multimodal Analysis ............................ 80 Part II: The Case Studies .............................................................................. 85 4 Verbalizing Quotation Marks: Quote and its Variants ................ 87 4.1 S enate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein’s Report ..... 89 4.2 Do Quotation Marks Really Matter? ...................................................... 103 4.3 An Academic Talk: Cognitive Psychologist Steven Pinker on Free Speech ................................................................. 116 4.4 Political Speeches: Barack Obama Announcing Another Voice ........ 127 4.5 The ‘Political’ Noam Chomsky: Diversities in Quoting Verbatim ..... 142 7 5 Quotation Marks across Media and Modalities ........................... 169 5.1 Quotation Marks in a Slide Show: Steven Pinker ................................. 169 5.2 A Quotation’s Medial History: A Basketball Score .............................. 176 5.3 ‘Doing’ Quotation Marks: John McCain, Steven Pinker, and Hillary Clinton ................................................................................... 191 6 Versatile Say: From Reporting to Animating Another Voice ..... 211 6.1 The Canonical Model in a Political Context: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Michelle Obama ............................. 212 6.2 ‘Launching’ Another Voice: Hillary Clinton ......................................... 229 6.3 Re-enacting Voices: Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey .................................................................................. 243 7 … and Back Again: Growing up – Be Like in Interviews ......... 273 7.1 Miley Cyrus on The Tonight Show ......................................................... 274 7.2 Serena Williams at Two U.S. Open Press Conferences ........................ 311 7.3 Jake Clemons’ Testimony ......................................................................... 335 7.4 Hillary Clinton – A Political Statement ................................................. 350 8 Suppressing the Other Voice ................................................................. 355 8.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second and Third Inaugurals ......................... 355 8.2 John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural .................................................................... 365 8.3 Michelle Obama – A Recent Example ................................................... 369 9 The Prevailing Hegemony of the Verbal Domain ........................ 373 References ........................................................................................................... 381 8 Part I: Theoretical Foundations
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