Linguistic recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings

Haapanen, Lauri; Perrin, Daniel

doi:10.1075/aila.00027.int

Introduction published In: Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings
Edited by Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin
[AILA Review 33] 2020
► pp. 1–20

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Introduction

Linguistic recycling

The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings

Lauri Haapanen | University of Jyväskylä

Daniel Perrin | Zurich University of Applied Sciences

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Published online: 7 October 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.00027.int

Article outline

1.Hence, recycling: Defining the key terms
- 1.1Quoting
- 1.2Recontextualization
- 1.3Linguistic recycling
- 1.4Medium
2.Playing for keeps: Topical relevance of the contributions
- 2.1Stakeholders
  - Paper I.The invisible supporters: Writing for reuseEva-Maria Jakobs & Claas Digmayer
  - Paper II.Linguistic recycling and its relationship to academic conflict: An analysis of authors’ responses to direct quotationSally Burgess & Pedro Martín-Martín
- 2.2Language
  - Paper III.Recycling a genre for news automation: The production of Valtteri the Election Bot Lauri Haapanen & Leo Leppänen
  - Paper IV.Linguistic recycling in language acquisition: Child-directed speech and child speech in the study of language acquisitionKlaus Laalo & Reili Argus
- 2.3Domain
  - Paper V.Narrative analysis applied to text production: Investigating the processes of quoting in the making of a broadcast news storyGilles Merminod
  - Paper VI.Reuse in STEM research writing: Rhetorical and practical considerations and challengesChris M. Anson, Susanne Hall, Michael Pemberton, & Cary Moskovitz
- 2.4Culture
  - Paper VII.Quoting to persuade: A critical linguistic analysis of quoting in US, UK, and Australian newspaper opinion textsJennifer Cope
  - Paper VIII.Reporting quotable yet untranslatable speech: Observations of shifting practices by Japanese newspapers from Obama to TrumpKayo Matsushita
- 2.5Media
  - Paper IX.Visuo-material performances: ‘Literalized’ quotations in prime minister’s questionsElisabeth Reber
  - Paper X.More than recycled snippets of news: Quote cards as recontextualized discourse on social mediaDaniel Pfurtscheller
3.Drivers in the helix: Towards a model of linguistic recycling
- 3.1Linguistic recycling is realized through practices of augmenting linguistic capital
- 3.2Linguistic recycling is characterized by the interplay of five key drivers
- 3.3Linguistic recycling is endlessly recursive
- 3.4Linguistic recycling transgresses boundaries between up- and downcycling
4.Next cycle: Taking the discussion to the virtual space
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