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.