Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains: 52 (Typological Studies in Language) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027229589 ISBN 13: 9789027229588

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002

Synopsis

The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality, reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the grammaticalization history of quotative constructions.
Almost all papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language.
Another central methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many earlier treatments.
The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.

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Synopsis

This collection of papers developed out of a workshop on "Function and Form of Reported Speech" at the 20th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society. In addition to selected papers presented there, further contributions from scholars involved in this research were invited to provide papers that captured a wider genetic and geographical variety of languages and thus offer insights in cross-linguistic similarities and differences within this linguistic domain.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027229589
• ISBN 13: 9789027229588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 437
• Editor: Güldemann Tom, Roncador Manfred Von