Reported Speech
Forms and functions of the verb
Published on 24. September 1996
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-55619-805-2 (ISBN)
Description
In sentences containing reported speech, thought, or perception, it is possible to distinguish different voices or views, associated with different discourse roles. They originate in two different clauses: one clause signals a reporting situation, and the other a reported situation.
This volume examines the methods used for combining these two types of clauses in a range of languages. In each of the contributions, the focus is on the forms and functions of verbs; topics dealt with include the meaning of tense, mood, and aspect (and their interaction) in the various types of reported speech, the speech act status of reported utterances, correlations between reporting verbs and verbs in reported clauses (and the conjunctions introducing them), and possible intra-systemic and cross-linguistic correlations of these properties.
The articles concentrate on the Slavic languages Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene, the Romance languages Latin, Old and Modern French, and Spanish, the Germanic languages Swedish, German, Dutch, and English, the Indo-Iranian language Bengali, and Mandarin Chinese.
This volume examines the methods used for combining these two types of clauses in a range of languages. In each of the contributions, the focus is on the forms and functions of verbs; topics dealt with include the meaning of tense, mood, and aspect (and their interaction) in the various types of reported speech, the speech act status of reported utterances, correlations between reporting verbs and verbs in reported clauses (and the conjunctions introducing them), and possible intra-systemic and cross-linguistic correlations of these properties.
The articles concentrate on the Slavic languages Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene, the Romance languages Latin, Old and Modern French, and Spanish, the Germanic languages Swedish, German, Dutch, and English, the Indo-Iranian language Bengali, and Mandarin Chinese.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
725 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-805-2 (9781556198052)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. List of contributors; 2. Abbreviations used in the glosses; 3. Introductory remarks on reported speech and thought (by Janssen, Theo); 4. 1. Slavic languages; 5. Shifting points of orientation in Modern Russian: Tense selection in 'reported perception' (by Barentsen, Adriaan); 6. Reported speech in South Slavic (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka); 7. 2. Romance languages; 8. The verb in indirect speech in Old French: System in change (by Bauer, Brigitte L.M.); 9. Modal patterns of direct and indirect discourse in Peninsular Spanish: An analysis within the framework of speech act typology (by Haverkate, Henk); 10. Reported speech in Latin (by Bolkestein, A. Machtelt); 11. Tense in (free) indirect discourse in French (by Landeweerd, Rita); 12. 3. Germanic languages; 13. Reported speech in Swedish (by Perridon, Harry); 14. Modality of verb forms in German reported speech (by Cate, Abraham P. ten); 15. Tense and temporal ordering in English and Dutch indirect speech (by Boogaart, Ronny); 16. Tense in reported speech and its frame of reference (by Janssen, Theo); 17. Sequence of tenses in English and Bengali (by Wurff, Wim van der); 18. 4. Chinese; 19. Free indirect speech in Chinese (by Hagenaar, Elly); 20. Index