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Chapter 5 - Reporting Clauses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2021

Elisabeth Reber
Elisabeth Reber
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University of Würzburg
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Chapter 5 examines how reporting clauses with the quotative verb SAY are emergent constructions, and offers a comparative analysis of such reporting clauses in the 1978–1988 and 2003–2013 data sets from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The analytic dimensions studied include the forms, and the semantics of (1) the subject which gives the evidential source, (2) the verb which conveys the act of saying and serves as a quotative, and (3) the optional indirect object and (4) circumstance adverbials. In addition, some of the uses and functions of reporting clauses are discussed. Based on further frequency counts, the conventionalisation and grammaticalisation of two specific clausal patterns are explored in a detailed interactional study.

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reporting clausesaygrammaticalisationchangeEnglishPrime Minister’s Questions
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Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
Exploring Recent Change
 , pp. 53 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Reporting Clauses
  • Elisabeth Reber
  • Book: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
  • Online publication: 27 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108869898.005
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  • Reporting Clauses
  • Elisabeth Reber
  • Book: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
  • Online publication: 27 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108869898.005
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  • Reporting Clauses
  • Elisabeth Reber
  • Book: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time
  • Online publication: 27 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108869898.005
Available formats
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