Quotation in Family Communication

The article examines how quotations are utilized in verbal family communication. The family belongs to the so-called small social groups. Family communication is spontaneous, free of constraints, closely related to the everyday domestic routine and its participants share a common apperceptive base (common experience). However, relaxed style and informality of family communication is accompanied by existence of a hierarchy. All of these features affect the functioning of language in the family.

As opposed to quotation in public sources, quotes in the family communication are not always “to the point”. A quotation can often be motivated not so much by similarity of a situation as by a certain word combination or even a single word that “tugs” the quote after it. Unlike in public speech, family quotes do not usually get a metatextual introduction, such as “As this person once said…” or “According to that person…”, thus they are reproduced without citing the source. Many of them become family speech stereotypes being regularly used in recurring communicative situations. Children often pick up such quotes from their parents before getting acquainted with their actual source. Quotations are often reproduced in modified forms and are subject to playful modifications. The original phrase is often reduced to just a couple of words (e.g. vtoraya svezhest’ [second freshness]) that hint at the original text [e.g. “Second freshness – that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness – the first – and it is also the last.” – M. Bulgakov. Master and Margarita].

Keywords

colloquial speech, language game, family communication, small social groups, speech stereotypes, quotation, precedent text

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25.09.2019

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25.09.2019

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GOST	Zanadvorova A. Quotation in Family Communication // Russkaya Rech’ – 2019. – Issue 5 C. 34-46 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170005690-8-1-en (circulation date: 23.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170005690-8
MLA	Zanadvorova, Anna V "Quotation in Family Communication." Russkaya Rech’ 5 (2019):34-46. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170005690-8
APA	Zanadvorova A. (2019). Quotation in Family Communication. Russkaya Rech’ (5), pp.34-46 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170005690-8

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