8. Controlling Quotation: The Regulation of Others’ Words and Voices

Abstract

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the humanintellect can forge(John Jay Chapman) How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?(Anon.) A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place(George Washington Carver) Like any other human activity quoting is socially organised. The practices and ideologies surrounding its use have, as we have seen, been interwoven with changing preconceptions over who and what should be quoted, with the recog...