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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2012-08-01
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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 |