Reported speech through the lens of corpus data

 
PIIS0373658X0000032-4-1
DOI10.31857/S0373658X0000032-4
Publication type Article
Status Published
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Affiliation:
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameVoprosy Jazykoznanija
EditionIssue 4
Pages47-73
Abstract

The paper investigates pragmatic, grammatical, and prosodic parameters that differentiate between direct and indirect speech, the two main strategies used to report what someone else said. Based on data from prosodically annotated corpora of personal stories, the study provides a qualitative as well as a quantitative analysis of non-prototypical cases of reported speech massively represented in Russian informal spoken discourse. Speech events registered in the analyzed data were checked against the scale of explication (from the maximal to the minimal): citation with direct speech > citation with indirect speech > description of speech event without reported speech > no mention of the speech event in the text. Comparing elicited spoken versions of personal stories with their written versions put down later by the same speakers allowed to conclude that in spoken stories, reported speech is used more often and with a higher degree of explication than in written stories.

Keywordscorpus, direct speech, grammar, indirect speech, pragmatics, prosody, spoken discourse
Received06.08.2018
Publication date19.09.2018
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