They could point to this video of the alt-right in action. Another solution could be to follow the advice of the literary critic I. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi, or white supremacist …. We should not limit ourselves to letting such groups define themselves, and instead should report their actions, associations, history, and positions to reveal their actual beliefs and philosophy, as well as how others see them. Language, certainly, evolves, and in many ways it bends toward ambiguity.
Words and the things they wear to be fit to be seen in public are complicated and stubbornly dynamic; quotation marks that have been repurposed to indicate debate rather than declaration are in one way just another, innocuous reminder of that.
They are a little bit belligerent, and a little bit anarchic. Scare quotes suggest that the atomic unit of democracy—the word, with a meaning that is commonly understood—may no longer be fully stable.
Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. Text takes on the voice s of its users as they reframe it in the recontextualised moment, whether as speakers, readers, creators, transmitters, audiences. Quoting above all melds voice and word. In quoting we sound not just our own voices but those that went before, sometimes far distant, sometimes nearby but still with that stance of looking in on us from outside and in turn being regarded and answered back.
Whether or not we are fully aware of it — for it may be only the gentlest of echoes — quoting calls the external and distant into the immediate moment.
Through quoting we sing a co-created polyphony of words and voices that are ours and not ours, past and not-past, mingling while standing back, both presence and beyond presence. Rather, I would argue, quoting with its multiple ramifications should be seen not as some separate add-on thing for which we want a special explanation, but as something as normal as any other facet of language.
Our forms of expression are to be understood as a fabric that we weave together, shot through with many glints; less a series of single notes than of multistranded chords in many registers, a chorus of past and present. And here again voice and text come together, where we take the words of others to ourselves, and our own words sound with the voices of those who formed and heard and implicitly commented on those words both now and in the past.
The interplay of overlapping voices and viewpoints that we work with — more, or less, differentiated, more, or less, explicit, more, or less, brightly coloured — is a perpetual rather than secondary dimension of human living. Sometimes, as we saw in Chapter 8, there are indeed reasons against it. Like other human actions it is constrained as well as facilitated in its particular social and historical settings.
But in the end — why not? There is no need to seek further for some generalised justification. For engaging with the multiple potentials of quoting is how we live our lives, how we variously connect with others and with ourselves, with our past and our present.
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Cited by. Full text. Bakhtin The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation Benjamin Disraeli 1 Our glances at quoting in other times and places throw a sharper light on the contemporary quoting patterns with which we started.
So what is it? The far and near of quoting 14 Can we say anything further about this rainbow and how humans make play with it? As Erasmus, again, has it to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour Erasmus Adages Introduction viii , CWE Vol.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote 25 quipped Edward Young , Satire I — satirically no doubt, but he had a point. Why quote? Read Open Access. Freemium Recommend to your library for acquisition. Buy Print version Open Book Publishers amazon. In: Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation [online]. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, generated 14 novembre Johnson has seen odd happenings on the farm, he stated that the spaceship "certainly takes the cake" when it comes to unexplainable activity.
When quoting text with a spelling or grammar error, you should transcribe the error exactly in your own text. However, also insert the term sic in italics directly after the mistake, and enclose it in brackets.
Sic is from the Latin, and translates to "thus," "so," or "just as that. Johnson says of the experience, "It's made me reconsider the existence of extraterestials [ sic ]. Indirect quotations are not exact wordings but rather rephrasings or summaries of another person's words. In this case, it is not necessary to use quotation marks.
However, indirect quotations still require proper citations, and you will be committing plagiarism if you fail to do so. Many writers struggle with when to use direct quotations versus indirect quotations. Use the following tips to guide you in your choice. Use direct quotations when the source material uses language that is particularly striking or notable.
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