direct quotation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandquotation
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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quotation
noun[C]
uk/kwəʊˈteɪ.ʃən/us/kwoʊˈteɪ.ʃən/
a phrase or short piece of writing taken from a longer work of literature, poetry, etc. or what someone else ...
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(Definition ofdirectandquotationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdirect quotation
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Like quotation marks,directquotationis a means through which the journalist indexes other voices and positions himself or herself with respect to those voices.
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Does the order in which a story is told affect the extensiveness ofdirectquotation?
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It may even include, as part of the text, some portions of simulated spoken discourse in the form ofdirectquotation.
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The use ofdirectquotationto report some of his views indicates that the report has been prepared from a tape recording.
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Like the variable (s), thedirectquotationvariable may also be analyzed as consisting of three variants: a full, a reduced, and a null variant.
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This procedure was applied to all age groups depicted for both word-final (s) and for thedirectquotationstrategies.
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The greatest degree of difference for both word-final (s) anddirectquotationstrategies is found in the teenage years.
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Newswriting manuals state thatdirectquotationserves two main functions in news stories.
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The concern for recovering the voices of migrants did not lead to muchdirectquotationin the words of the migrants.
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In other instances, he used a combination ofdirectquotationand free paraphrase, at times diverging from his model abruptly in order to make substantial alterations in plot or characterisation.
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That is hisdirectquotation, and then there is an explanatory note with no attribution.
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That rule applies only when there is adirectquotationfrom a state paper.
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It needs to be adirectquotationfrom a state paper.
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It was however considered that too much space—one-third of the total from all newspapers—was devoted todirectquotationin the second section.
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I was not seeking to do anything other than to make adirectquotation.
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That was adirectquotation; it was not my speech.
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If there is adirectquotation, it is necessary to lay the document; if there is a paraphrase, that is not necessary.
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