ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a distinctive type of intertextuality called direct quotes, which includes both written quotes and sound bite quotes, and it discusses research dealing particularly with quotes and quoting in the media. The data corpora used to illustrate key findings about both product and process aspects of quotes and quoting are drawn from the production processes of Swiss television news and Finnish written publications. The chapter examines medialinguistic research on quoting, especially in journalistic media. Direct quoting is a distinctive and essential phenomenon in the media, albeit, how it materializes varies according to the medium in which it occurs. The chapter presents the state of the research explaining the structure of quotes, the functions of quotes, and the process of quoting. It focuses on critical issues involved in the investigation of quotes and quoting and outlines future directions of research by foregrounding the phenomenon of socio-quoting.
