caa a22 4500 386349452 CHVBK 20180307111824.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047404500013646 doi S0047404500013646 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047404500013646 Dubois Betty Lou Department of Communication Studies, New Mexico State University Pseudoquotation in current English communication: "Hey, she didn't really say it” [Elektronische Daten] [Betty Lou Dubois] To investigate discourse and interactive functions of quote formula + hey + pseudoquotation, that is, invented quotation, in current English communication, tokens were collected from public and commercial broadcasts and miscellaneous readings during a four-month period. In addition, all instances of hey with context were extracted from the Brown Corpus of American English. Only 26 possible tokens, the majority from radio and television, were located; one instance in Brown indicates existence as early as 1961. A speaker uses quote formula + hey + pseudoquotation to dramatize and thereby give emphasis to an important point (in these examples, generally in an expository discourse), a practice reported for both sophisticated and folk discourse. Instead of a rhetorical question, the device makes a rhetorical answer to an unasked question. Although pseudoquotation can be found either without discourse marker or with other discourse marker, hey is an appropriate marker for pseudoquotation, simultaneously to mark an important point in a discourse and to bind listeners to the ongoing interaction by (re)capturing their attention. (Discourse markers, conversational interaction, pragmatics, dramatization, hey, quotation) Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Language in Society Cambridge University Press 18/3(1989-09), 343-359 0047-4045 18:3<343 1989 18 LSY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500013646 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500013646 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dubois Betty Lou Department of Communication Studies, New Mexico State University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language in Society Cambridge University Press 18/3(1989-09), 343-359 0047-4045 18:3<343 1989 18 LSY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge