“‘Peewit,’ said a peewit, very remote.” – Notes on quotatives in literary translation
Open Linguistics, 2022 The present article focuses on strategies of translating fiction quotatives from English into Romanian. Starting from the definition of quotatives as structures that in their simplest form consist of a subject and a quoting verb and accompany a quotation,
Nadina Visan
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Reliable words Third person pronouns in Indonesian News Reports [PDF]
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2010 This article examines uses of Indonesian third person singular pronouns ia and dia in news reports. It takes as its departure point the general account of the pronouns which specifies that ia can occur only in subject position, while dia can occur in ...
Dwi Noverini Djenar
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Introduction: the development of manner expressions into complementizers or quotatives
LinguisticsThrough intriguing paths of change, manner expressions may give rise to both quotatives and a diverse range of complementizers. These paths of change are still far from mapped or fully understood, but after years of relative ignorance, they have recently
Caroline Gentens, Kasper Boye
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Languages, 2022 This study explores the acquisition of the English quotative system and the innovative quotative variant be like among Chinese L2 speakers of English residing in Melbourne, Australia.
Jihyun Karen Choi +1 more
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What Does It Meme? English–Spanish Codeswitching and Enregisterment in Virtual Social Space
Languages, 2023 This project investigates English–Spanish codeswitching in internet memes posted to the Facebook page, We are mitú (mitú), and analyzes how lexical insertions and quotatives contribute to the enregisterment of linguistic patterns and the construction of ...
Kendra V. Dickinson
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Quotatifs et ethos interactionnel : quelques fonctions de l’introducteur BE LIKE
E-REA, 2020 The quotative system of English, after two new forms appeared in its midst – the verb GO and, more prominently, the construction BE LIKE – has been subject to many studies aiming at characterising the new quotatives.
Yann FUCHS
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The syntax of manner quotative constructions in English and Dutch [PDF]
, 2012 This paper proposes an account of some properties of the manner quotative constructions be like [Quote] in English and hebben (zo)iets van [Quote] in Dutch. We make two main claims about these constructions.
Haddican, William, Zweig, Eytan
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(Be) like en anglais, genre en français : de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectif
E-REA, 2020 This study aims at contrasting (be) like and genre as triggers of direct speech. Like appears mostly in the well-studied be like structure which has now become a true contender of say when reporting direct speech.
Jeanne VIGNERON-BOSBACH
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
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The Quotative System in Spanish and English Youth Talk. A Contrastive Corpus-based Study
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2014 The speech of teenagers is rich in narratives, with the direct reproduction of speech, thoughts, and non-lexical material often introduced through the use of quotatives. This paper aims to compare such quotative markers in English and Spanish.. Findings
Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez
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