The effect of genre on reporting speech: conversations and newspaper articles

This study focuses on reported speech in two different genres: spoken conversation and newspaper articles. There are two basic structures that allow language users to report formerly uttered words: direct and indirect speech. Both structures serve to integrate former discourse into the ongoing disco...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fleur van der Houwen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012-08-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/borealis/article/view/2294