Abstract
The complexity of representing the words and thoughts of others and relating them to the perspective of ourselves and our interlocutors lies at the heart of our ability to coordinate, distinguish, and calibrate the jostling versions of a partly shared social world. The chapter provides a canonical typology of different types of quotation. There are three canonical types: direct speech, calculated from the primary speech event; indirect speech, calculated from the reported speech event; biperspectival speech, calculated from both perspectives at once. But the number of possibilities between these ideals is immense. Canonical Typology allows us to distinguish a much richer set of possibilities within the large and confusingly labelled set of 'semi-direct' and 'semi-indirect' phenomena.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Canonical Morphology and Syntax |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191746154 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780199604326 |
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Publication status | Published - 8 Nov 2012 |