Direct and Indirect Speech

381 Pages·1986·11.743 MB·English

by  Florian Coulmas

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
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Direct and indirect speech / ed. by Florian Coulmas.
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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