Reported Speech
Forms and functions of the verb
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 1996
X, 312 pages
978-90-272-8267-5 (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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Content
- REPORTED SPEECH
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Abbreviations used in the glosses
- Introductory remarks on reported speech and thought
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- REFERENCES
- I. SLAVIC LANGUAGES
- Shifting points of orientation in Modern Russian: Tense selection in 'reported perception'
- 1. Reported speech in Russian
- 2. 'Explanatory sentences'
- 3. Some semantic distinctions among explanatory sentences
- 4. Sources of data on 'reported perception'
- 5. Some distinguishing features of sensory verbs
- 6. The distinction between the conjunctions cto and kak
- 7. Some quantitative data
- 8. Aspect in the dependent clause
- 9. Factors influencing the choice of tense forms: inclusion or exclusion of COP
- 10. Factors influencing the choice of tense forms: 'retrospective' vs. 'narrative' mode of use of the past tense
- 11. Some additional factors favouring the choice of past tense
- 12. Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Reported speech in South Slavic
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Eastern South Slavic
- 3. Western South Slavic
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- II. ROMANCE LANGUAGES
- The verb in indirect speech in Old French: System in change
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Typology of Old French
- 3. Indirect speech in Old French
- 4. Analysis of the data of the corpus
- 5. Conclusion
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- Modalpatterns of direct and indirect discourse in Peninsular Spanish: An analysis within the framework of speech act typology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Assertives
- 3. Directives
- 4. Assertives and directives: a case of lexical homonymy
- 5. Conclusion
- NOTES
- SOURCES
- REFERENCES
- Reported speech in Latin
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Illocutionary force in indirect speech in Latin
- 3. Indirect speech, verbs of mental activity and verbs of perception
- 4. 'Deviating' subordinate clauses 'within' reported speech
- 5. 'Oblique' subjunctives in 'first degree' subordinate clauses
- 6. Concluding remarks
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Tense in (free) indirect discourse in French
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sells's discourse roles
- 3. Tense and adverbs in embedded clauses
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- III. GERMANIC LANGUAGES
- Reported speech in Swedish
- 1. Direct and indirect speech. General remarks
- 2. Direct and indirect speech in Swedish
- 3. Primary and secondary deixis
- 4. Primary deixis in Swedish
- 5. Secondary deixis
- 6. Word order
- 7. Conclusion
- NOTES
- SOURCES
- REFERENCES
- Modality of verb forms in German reported speech
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A characterisation of reported speech
- 3. Function of the subjunctive mood in reported speech
- 4. Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Tense and temporal ordering in English and Dutch indirect speech
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sequence of tenses in English and Dutch
- 3. Two differences between English and Dutch indirect speech
- 4. Aspect and temporal ordering in indirect speech
- 5. Final remarks
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Tense in reported speech and its frame of reference
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tense sphere replaced by time sphere
- 3. Reference sphere
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Sequence of tenses in English and Bengali
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tense in indirect speech in English: two analyses
- 3. Tense in indirect speech in Bengali
- 4. Tense in indirect speech in Bengali: the two analyses evaluated
- 5. Conclusions and prospects
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- IV. CHINESE
- Free indirect speech in Chinese
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aspect
- 3. Free indirect speech
- 4. The case of Chinese
- 5. Effects of the absence of verb tense
- APPENDIX
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- Index
