The semantics of free indirect discourse : how texts allow us to mind-read and eavesdrop / by Regine Eckardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckardt, Regine, author.

Series:

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 31.

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Indirect discourse.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics, Comparative.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.

Cognitive grammar.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

xi, 283 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 The Challenge of Free Indirect Discourse 1

1.2 Macro and Micro Level Indicators 6

1.3 A Little Bit of Grammar 14

1.4 Two Voices 18

1.5 Preview 24

2 The Contexts of Free Indirect Discourse 29

2.1 Kaplan on Context 31

2.2 Interpreting Free Indirect Discourse 36

2.3 Earlier Formal Approaches to Free Indirect Discourse 46

2.4 Where Does Inner Context Come From? 50

2.5 Advanced Issues: Recursion 57

2.6 Summary 59

3 Story Update 60

3.1 Information as Common Ground Update 63

3.2 Narration and Story Update 66

3.3 Updates by Assertion and Commentary 69

3.4 Advanced Issues: Expressive Content in Modal Contexts 79

3.5 Summary 85

4 Tense and Aspect 88

4.1 Events, Tense and Aspect 89

4.2 Forcing Free Indirect Discourse 100

4.3 Discourse and Free Indirect Discourse 103

4.4 Advanced Issues: Interface Considerations and Exceptions 108

4.5 Summary 112

5 Particles in Free Indirect Discourse 114

5.1 Speaker as a Parameter in Contexts of Thought 114

5.2 Speaker's Attitude: leider 116

5.3 Speaker and Common Ground: ja 120

5.4 Speaker's Agenda: also + Focus 126

5.5 Speaker's Epistemic Background: wokl 129

5.6 Speaker's Objections: dock 134

5.7 Advanced Issues: How Temporal and Speaker Oriented Indexicals Interact 138

5.8 Summary 147

6 Exclamatives 149

6.1 Exclamatives in Direct and Indirect Discourse 149

6.2 Rett's Theory of Exclamatives 155

6.3 The Temporal Structure of Exclamatives 158

6.4 Exclamatives, Times, and Tensed Degrees 160

6.5 Derived Reference to Gradable Post-States 166

6.6 Advanced Issues: Dead Ends in the Analysis of Exclamatives 169

6.7 Summary 175

7 Predecessors and Alternatives 177

7.1 Banfield 178

7.2 Schlenker 183

7.3 Sharvit 188

7.4 Quotational Theories 197

8 More Tenses, More Moods 205

8.1 The Konjunktiv in Reported Speech and Thought 206

8.2 Advanced Issues: Fabricius-Hansen and Sæbø 217

8.3 Free Indirect Speech in the Historical Present 221

9 Forbidden in Shifted Speech 228

9.1 Banned from Indirect Discourse 228

9.2 Vocatives 230

9.3 Imperatives 236

9.4 Summary 240

10 Final Panorama 242

10.1 Looking Back 242

10.2 New Horizons 247

10.3 Linguistics, Literature, and the Challenge of Fiction 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004266728

9004266720

OCLC:

872222347