Reported Discourse : A meeting ground for different linguistic domains.
Title:
Reported Discourse : A meeting ground for different linguistic domains.
Author:
Güldemann, Tom.
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9789027297198
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1 online resource (437 pages)
Contents:
Reported Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Part 1: Categories of reported discourse and their use -- Chapter 1: Speech and thought representation in the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages -- Chapter 2: Self-quotation in German -- Chapter 3: Direct and indirect speech in Cerma narrative -- Chapter 4: Direct and indirect discourse in Tamil -- Chapter 5: The acceptance of ''free indirect discourse'' -- Chapter 6: Direct, indirect and other discourse in Bengali newspapers -- Part 2: Tense-aspect and evidentiality -- Chapter 7: Evidentiality and reported speech in Romance languages -- Chapter 8: Discourse perspectives on tense choice in spoken-English reporting discourse -- Part 3: Logophoricity -- Chapter 9: The logophoric hierarchy and variation in Dogon -- Chapter 10: Logophoric marking in East Asian languages -- Part 4: Form and history of quotative constructions -- Chapter 11: The grammaticalization of 'say' and 'do' -- Chapter 12: When 'say' is not say -- Chapter 13: Reported speech in Egyptian -- Chapter 14: 'Report' constructions in Kambera (Austronesian) -- Chapter 15: All the same? -- Part 5: A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse -- A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse -- Index of names -- Index of languages and language groups -- Typological Studies in Language.
Abstract:
The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality, reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the grammaticalization history of quotative constructions.Almost all papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language.Another central methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many earlier treatments.The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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