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Direct and Indirect Speech Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 31 Editor Werner Winter Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York · Amsterdam Direct and Indirect Speech edited by Florian Coulmas Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York · Amsterdam Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin. Direct and indirect speech. (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 31) 1. Grammar, Comparative and general - Indirect discourse - Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Coulmas, Florian. II. Series. P301.5.I53D57 1986 415 85-29795 ISBN 0-89925-176-5 CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek Direct and indirect speech / ed. by Florian Coulmas. - Berlin ; New York ; Amsterdam : Mouton, de Gruyter, 1986. (Trends in linguistics : Studies and monographs ; 31) ISBN 3-11-010599-3 NE: Coulmas, Florian [Hrsg.]; Trends in linguistics / Studies and monographs Printed on acid free paper. © Copyright 1986 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin. All rights reserved, inclu- ding those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be re- produced in any form - by photoprint, microfilm or any other means - nor trans- mitted nor translated into a machine language without written permission from Mouton de Gruyter, a Division of Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin. Typesetting: Wagner GmbH, Nördlingen. - Printing: Ratzlow-Druck, Berlin. - Binding: Lüderitz & Bauer GmbH, Berlin. - Printed in Germany. Preface The objective of this book is to clarify the notions of direct and indirect speech. Its raison d'etre as a collection of articles is the fact that general notions of this kind are best understood when investigated with respect to several different languages. Only carefull comparative analysis can show how general they really are. The authors of this book all agree with me that reported speech is a subject well worth the effort of a cross-linguistic co-operative approach. It is thanks to them that this volume presents accounts of direct and indirect speech in 14 different languages of almost as many language families with occassional references to many others. I have learned a lot from their contributions. Should this turn out to be true for other readers too, then the book will have achived its purpose. While working on this volume, I was a Heisenberg-Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which I gratefully acknowledge. F. Coulmas Tokyo, December 1984 Contents Preface V Contributors IX Reported speech: Some general issues 1 Florian Coulmas Direct and indirect speech: A functional study 29 Charles N. Li Some remarks on direct and indirect speech in Slave (Northern Athapaskan) 47 Keren D. Rice Reported speech in Yoruba 77 Ay ο Bamgbose Reported speech in Swahili 99 David P. B. Massamba Speech reporting in the Caucasus 121 B. G. Hewitt and S. R. Crisp Reported speech in some languages of Nepal 145 Karen Ebert Direct and indirect speech in Japanese 161 Florian Coulmas The particle -o and content-oriented indirect speech in Japanese written discourse 179 Senko K. Maynard Some semantic aspects of indirect speech in Hungarian 201 Ferenc Kiefer Reported speech in Danish 219 Hartmut Haberland VIII Contents Reported speech in French and Hungarian 255 Ivan Fonagy Introducing constructed dialogue in Greek and American conver- sational and Literary Narrative 311 Deborah Tannen Characteristics of direct and reported speech prosody: Evidence from Spanish 333 Karen H. Kvavik Index of subjects 361 Index of names 366 Contributors Ayo Bamgbose Ibadan, Nigeria Florian Coulmas Düsseldorf, FRG S. R. Crisp Hull, England Karen Ebert Marburg, FRG Ivan Fonagy Antony, France Hartmut Haberland Roskilde, Danmark Brian G. Hewitt Hull, England Ferenc Kiefer Budapest, Hungary Karen H. Kvavik Minneapolis, U.S.A Charles N. Li Santa Barbara, U.S. A Senko K. Maynard New Brunswick, U.S. A David P. B. Massamba Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Keren D. Rice Toronto, Canada Deborah Tannen Washington, D.C., U.S.A
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