Speech and Thought Representation in English

Speech and Thought Representation in English
Author: Lieven Vandelanotte
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2009
Genre: English language
ISBN: 3110205890

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Main description: The author argues for a new, linguistically grounded typology of speech and thought representation in English from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Apart from direct and indirect speech/thought, the types described include the character-oriented free indirect and the narrator-oriented distancing indirect type, and two subjectified types in which reporting clauses such as I think function as hedges.