Direct and Indirect Speech

✍ Scribed by Florian Coulmas (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 31
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Reported speech: Some general issues
Direct and indirect speech: A functional study
Some remarks on direct and indirect speech in Slave (Northern Athapaskan)
Reported speech in Yoruba
Reported speech in Swahili
Speech reporting in the Caucasus
Reported speech in some languages of Nepal
Direct and indirect speech in Japanese
The particle -o and content-oriented indirect speech in Japanese written discourse
Some semantic aspects of indirect speech in Hungarian
Reported speech in Danish
Reported speech in French and Hungarian
Introducing constructed dialogue in Greek and American conversational and Literary Narrative
Characteristics of direct and reported speech prosody: Evidence from Spanish
Index of subjects
Index of names