Reber2020a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Reber2020a |
| Author(s) | Elisabeth Reber |
| Title | Visuo-material performances: 'Literalized’ quotations in prime minister’s questions |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Visio-material performances, Interactional Linguistics, Persuasion |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | AILA Review |
| Volume | 33 |
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| Pages | 176–203 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/aila.00036.reb |
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Abstract
Drawn from a larger project on reported speech in parliamentary interaction (Reber, forthcoming), this paper studies visuo-material performances of so-called “literalized” (Rumsey, 1992) quoting, i.e., verbatim reproductions of original utterances. Taking an interactional-linguistic perspective, I analyze how participants accomplish ‘literalized’ reported speech through vocal, verbal, and visual cues, recruiting their material documents. The data are culled from video recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), a parliamentary session where the Prime Minister (PM) takes questions from the Leader of the Opposition (LO) and Members of Parliament (MPs) at the British House of Commons. I place my focus on cases where speakers use original documents as visual aids, a classic rhetoric device of persuasion, and show how paper documents are constituted, celebrated, and rhetorically enacted as (seemingly) original documents in embodied, situated ways. As a conclusion, I argue that the display of original documents allows the speaker to make claims of having not only evidential but also experiential access to their sources, a practice that underpins their evidential authority.
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