Direct and indirect speech / edited by Florian Coulmas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coulmas, Florian.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 31

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 1861-4302 ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Indirect discourse.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Direct and Indirect Speech".

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contributors

Reported speech: Some general issues / Coulmas, Florian

Direct speech and indirect speech: A functional study / Li, Charles N.

Some remarks on direct and indirect discourse in Slave (Northern Athapaskan) / Rice, Keren D.

Reported speech in Yoruba / Bamgboṣe, Ayọ

Reported speech in Swahili / Massamba, David P. B.

Speech reporting in the Caucasus / Hewitt, B. G. / Crisp, S. R.

Reported speech in some languages of Nepal / Ebert, Karen

Direct and indirect speech in Japanese / Coulmas, Florian

The particle -ο and content-oriented indirect speech in Japanese written discourse / Maynard, Senko K.

Some semantic aspects of indirect speech in Hungarian / Kiefer, Ferenc

Reported speech in Danish / Haberland, Hartmut

Reported speech in French and Hungarian / Fónagy, Ivan

Introducing constructed dialogue in Greek and American conversational and literary narrative / Tannen, Deborah

Index of subjects

Index of names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110871968

3110871963

OCLC:

922945133