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Speech and Thought Representation in English - A Cognitive-Functional Approach (Hardcover)
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Speech and Thought Representation in English - A Cognitive-Functional Approach (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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This book aims to provide a new, linguistically grounded typology
of speech and thought representation in English on the basis of the
systematic study of deictic, syntactic and semantic properties of
authentic examples drawn from literary as well as non-literary
sources. In the area beyond direct and indirect speech or thought,
'free indirect discourse' has often been implicitly treated as a
residual category that can accommodate anything that is neither one
nor the other. This book takes a fresh look at the evidence in the
area of deixis, particularly through a close study of pronoun and
proper name use, and proposes to distinguish the more
character-oriented free indirect type from a narrator-oriented
'distancing' indirect type, which is grammatically wholly
structured from the narrator's deictic standpoint. Unlike free
indirect representations, which coherently represent the
character's viewpoint, the distancing indirect type sees narrators
appropriating character discourse for their own purposes, which may
for instance be ironic. The distinctions thus drawn shed new light
on the much debated 'dual voice' approach to free indirect
discourse. Included in the scope of this book are subjectified uses
of clauses such as I think, which no longer primarily construe a
cognition process, but rather come to function as hedges. Such
speaker-encoding uses are argued to involve an interpersonal type
of structure, not based on complementation, whereas the
non-subjectified cases receive an interclausal complementation
analysis which does not have recourse to the problematic notion of
'reporting verb'. This monograph is mainly of interest to
researchers and graduate students interested in the syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics of reported speech viewed from a
constructional perspective.
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