Publications

Publication details [#51029]

Ikeo, Reiko. 2009. An elaboration of the faithfulness claims in direct writing. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (5) : 999–1016.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

correctness | directness | quotative | review | writing

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article explores the faithfulness claims of direct writing, by examining quotations from literary reviews on paperback covers, in which faithfulness to the original text is not necessarily taken into account.