Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Challenge of Free Indirect Discourse -- 1.2. Macro and Micro Level Indicators -- 1.3. A Little Bit of Grammar -- 1.4. Two Voices -- 1.5. Preview -- Chapter 2. The Contexts of Free Indirect Discourse -- 2.1. Kaplan on Context -- 2.2. Interpreting Free Indirect Discourse -- 2.3. Earlier Formal Approaches to Free Indirect Discourse -- 2.4. Where Does Internal Context Come From? -- 2.5. Advanced Issues: Recursion -- 2.6. Summary -- Chapter 3. Story Update -- 3.1. Information as Common Ground Update -- 3.2. Narration and Story Update -- 3.3. Updates by Assertion and Commentary -- 3.4. Advanced Issues: Expressive Content in Modal Contexts -- 3.5. Summary -- Chapter 4. Tense and Aspect -- 4.1. Events, Tense, and Aspect -- 4.2. Forcing Free Indirect Discourse -- 4.3. Discourse and Free Indirect Discourse -- 4.4. Advanced Issues: Interface Considerations and Exceptions -- 4.5. Summary -- Chapter 5. Particles in Free Indirect Discourse -- 5.1. Speaker as a Parameter in Contexts of Thought -- 5.2. Speaker's Attitude: leider -- 5.3. Speaker and Common Ground: ja -- 5.4. Speaker's Agenda: also + Focus -- 5.5. Speaker's Epistemic Background: wohl -- 5.6. Speaker's Objections: doch -- 5.7. Advanced Issues: How Temporal and Speaker Oriented Indexicals Interact -- 5.8. Summary -- Chapter 6. Exclamatives -- 6.1. Exclamatives in Direct and Indirect Discourse -- 6.2. Rett's Theory of Exclamatives -- 6.3. The Temporal Structure of Exclamatives -- 6.4. Exclamatives, Times, and Tensed Degrees -- 6.5. Derived Reference to Gradable Post-States -- 6.6. Advanced Issues: Dead Ends in the Analysis of Exclamatives -- 6.7. Summary -- Chapter 7. Predecessors and Alternatives -- 7.1. Banfield -- 7.2. Schlenker -- 7.3. Sharvit -- 7.4. Quotation Theories -- Chapter 8. More Tenses, More Moods.

8.1. The Konjunktiv in Reported Speech and Thought -- 8.2. Advanced Issues: Fabricius-Hansen and Sæbø -- 8.3. Free Indirect Speech in the Historical Present -- Chapter 9. Forbidden in Shifted Speech -- 9.1. Banned from Indirect Discourse -- 9.2. Vocatives -- 9.3. Imperatives -- 9.4. Summary -- Chapter 10. Final Panorama -- 10.1. Looking Back -- 10.2. New Horizons -- 10.3. Linguistics, Literature, and the Challenge of Fiction -- Appendix. A Summary of Formal Proposals -- References -- Index.