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Quotation

A quotation or quote is used at the start of a sentence to signify what someone might say, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying. For example: John…

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As a literary device

PaintingMovieMusical compositionAuthorBartlett's Familiar Quotations
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PhraseSpeechTextProsodicCitation
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In spoken discourse

Indo-European languagesSubordinate clauseSociolinguisticVerb of sayingPronoun
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Comparison between direct, indirect, and free indirect speech

Illocutionary forceIndirect speechFree indirect speech
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Comparison between direct, indirect, and free indirect speech

As a literary device

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In spoken discourse

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Quotation

Nodes88
Edges87
Triples96
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022727
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Quotation

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related to Misquotations · 35
Quotation → Beam, Casablanca, Darth Vader, Dirty Harry, Do, Dragnet, Elementary, Examples, Gold Hat, Harry Callahan, Heavy, Ilsa, Jack Webb's, Joe Friday, Just, Luke, Many, Oscar Wilde, Other, Part
related to Common sources · 12
Quotation → Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Diaries, Famous, Famous Phrases, Maxims, Of, Proverbs, Quotations, The Columbia Dictionary, The Macmillan Book, The Oxford Dictionary, The Yale Book
related to Reasons for using · 11
Quotation → Finally, For, In, Instead, Pragmatically, Quotations, The, Therefore, They, While, Wittgensteinian
related to In spoken discourse · 9
Quotation → Both, Crucially, Direct, From, He, Indirect, Indo-European, Instead, Traditionally
related to Quotative inversion · 9
Quotation → Also, By, Hebrew Bible, It, New Testament, Quotations, Quotative, Said, Subject-verb
related to Syntax · 6
Quotation → Different, In, Ix, Shex, The, They
related to Form · 5
Quotation → English, For, In, Japanese, She
related to Hand gesture · 1
Quotation → Hand
see also · 1
Quotation → Block

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quotations quotative speech said also used verb direct languages speaker indirect english example verbs spoken saying original like say evidentials

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
be likeinstance ofverbs0.80text
goinstance ofverbs0.80text
and be all are non-standard quotatives that are commonly used in colloquial speechinstance ofverbs0.80text
when telling stories.Quotative verbsQuotative verbs are lexical verbs that indicate the speechinstance ofit is mainly context-dependent0.80text
thoughtsinstance ofit is mainly context-dependent0.80text
or perceptions of the original speaker.Quotations can be introduced as the complement to a quotative verb or as the head phrase to an adjunct phrase containing a quotative verb in some languages like Englishinstance ofit is mainly context-dependent0.80text
French.English also displays verb-secondinstance ofit is mainly context-dependent0.80text
Quotationrelated to Common sourcesFamous0.60section
Quotationrelated to Common sourcesOf0.60section
Quotationrelated to Common sourcesBartlett's Familiar Quotations0.60section
Quotationrelated to Common sourcesThe Oxford Dictionary0.60section
Quotationrelated to Common sourcesQuotations0.60section

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