Phrases in literary contexts: patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels

This paper addresses relations between lexico-grammatical patterns and texts. Our focus is on a specific linguistic unit, the ‘suspended quotation’ (or ‘suspension’), which has received particular attention in Dickens studies. The suspended quotation refers to an interruption of a fictional characte...

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Main Authors: Mahlberg, Michaela, Smith, Catherine, Preston, Simon
Format: Article
Published: John Benjamins Publishing 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3151/