Speech and Thought Presentation in French -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Presentation and objectives -- 2. Working definitions -- 2.1. Literature versus non literature -- 2.2. Fiction versus non fiction -- 2.3. Discourse and text -- 2.4. Narrative versus non narrative -- 3. Translatio studii -- Notes -- Concepts -- Introduction -- Enunciation theory and S&TP -- 1. The théorie de l'énonciation: An overview -- 2. Ducrot's theory: A split subject -- 3. Applying Ducrot's theory to the study of S&TP -- 4. Enunciation theory and S&TP in literary fiction -- 5. Voice, point of view and the notion of enunciator -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- What is `reported discourse'? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How should we understand the term `reported'? -- 2.1. Anteriority and objectivity -- 2.2. Towards a continuum from reproduction to assertion -- 2.3. Reported discourse and argumentative sequences -- 2.4. Relating a discourse to another -- 3. What is covered under the generic term `discourse' ? -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Verbal and non verbal -- 3.3. From external speech to internal attitudes: Another continuum -- 3.4. Other types of reported discourse -- 4. Does `reported discourse' only mean `discourse of the other(s)'? -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Performative and attitudinal expressions -- 4.3. Modality and theatricalisation -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- To the limits of reportability -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Narrated Discourse -- 2.1. Names and definitions -- 2.2. Syntactic versus semantic definition -- 2.3. How to find Narrated Discourses -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. `Press Conditional', Selon X, etc. -- 3.1. The `Press conditional' -- 3.2. Selon X, d'après X, pour X -- 3.3. Other modalisation markers -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Strategies -- Contemporary spoken French.

1. Introduction -- 2. A macroanalysis of the corpus -- 2.1. Direct Discourse -- 2.2. Free Indirect Discourse -- 2.3. Indirect Discourse -- 2.4. Neutral Discourse -- 2.5. Writing presentation -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. A microanalysis of the corpus -- 3.1. Balboa -- 3.2. Selin -- 3.3. Ghioldi -- 3.4. Giovannoni -- 3.5. Mousset -- 3.6. Gautier E (3000 words, recorded in 1986) -- 3.7. Nevchehirlian -- 3.8. Tscharner -- 3.9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Medieval literature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Elaboration of form -- 3. Elaboration of functions -- 3.1. Speech strategies and the staging of orality in `chansons de geste' -- 3.2. Speech and the rhetoric of truth in `chansons de geste', chronicles and prose romances -- 3.3. Thought presentation and the expression of point of view in romances' -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Ninetieth and twentieth-century literature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Free Indirect Discourse in ninetieth-century literature -- 3. Freeing reported discourse in twentieth-century literature -- Notes -- Contemporary written press -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gossip magazines -- 3. Women's magazines -- 4. News magazines -- 5. Newspapers -- 6. Reported discourse and style -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Corpus of contemporary spoken French1 -- Note -- Corpus of medieval French literature -- Corpus of contemporary French literature -- Corpus of contemporary written French press -- Author index -- Subject index -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.