Abstract
Examples from Czech and Swedish conversations illustrate how conversationalists use quotations when they define their own identity and when they speak about the identity of the others. The analysis is based on Tannens concept of constructed dialogue where direct quotation is seen as the creation of the speaker rather than the party quoted. The results indicate that quotations can be used strategically. They have not only the communicative functions to particularize, dramatize, and to create scenes but also to imitate and characterize the others: It is less threatening for the speakers to compress their valuations in quotations than to use evaluative attributes about the others. Constructed dialogue allows speakers to position those who are animated as speakers in unflattering light. The speakers who supply constructed quotations are less likely to be accused of having stereotypic opinions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Dialoganalyse VI. (Proceedings of the 6th International Congresss of IADA - International Association for Dialog)/Beiträge zur Dialogforschung; 17 |
| Editors | S. Cmejrkova, J. Hoffmannova, O. Mullerova, J. Svetla |
| Publisher | Max Niemeyer Verlag |
| Pages | 245-252 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1998 |
Publication series
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| Volume | 2 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0940-5992 |
Bibliographical note
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.The record was previously connected to the following departments: Swedish (015011001), Educational Sciences (000026010), Cognitive Science (015001004)
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Languages and Literature
Free keywords
- positioning
- formulating social and ethnic identity
- quotations
- constructed dialogue