Table Of ContentPerspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 19
Alessandro Capone
Manuel García-Carpintero
Alessandra Falzone E ditors
Indirect
Reports and
Pragmatics
in the World
Languages
Perspectives in Pragmatics,
Philosophy & Psychology
Volume 19
Editor-in-Chief
AlessandroCapone,UniversityofMessina,Italy
ConsultingEditors
KeithAllan,MonashUniversity,Melbourne,Australia
LouiseCummings,NottinghamTrentUniversity,UK
WayneA.Davis,GeorgetownUniversity,Washington,USA
IgorDouven,Paris-SorbonneUniversity,France
YanHuang,UniversityofAuckland,NewZealand
IstvanKecskes,StateUniversityofNewYorkatAlbany,USA
FrancoLoPiparo,UniversityofPalermo,Italy
AntoninoPennisi,UniversityofMessina,Italy
EditorialBoardMembers
NoelBurton-Roberts,UniversityofNewcastle,UK
BrianButler,UniversityofNorthCarolina,Asheville,USA
FeliceCimatti,UniversitàdellaCalabria,Cosenza,Italy
ErosCorazza,CarletonUniversity,Ottawa,Canada
MarceloDascal,TelAvivUniversity,Israel
MichaelDevitt,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork,USA
FransvanEemeren,UniversityofAmsterdam,TheNetherlands
AlessandraFalzone,UniversityofMessina,Italy
NeilFeit,StateUniversityofNewYork,Fredonia,USA
AlessandraGiorgi,Ca’FoscariUniversityofVenice,Italy
LarryHorn,YaleUniversity,NewHaven,USA
KlausvonHeusinger,UniversityofStuttgart,Germany
KatarzynaJaszczolt,UniversityofCambridge,UK
FerencKiefer,HungarianAcademyofSciences,Budapest,Hungary
KepaKorta,ILCLI,Donostia,Spain
ErnestLepore,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick,USA
StephenC.Levinson,MaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguistics,Nijmegen,TheNetherlands
FabrizioMacagno,NewUniversityofLisbon,Portugal
TullioDeMauro,‘LaSapienza’University,Rome,Italy
JacobL.Mey,UniversityofSouthernDenmark,Odense,Denmark
PietroPerconti,UniversityofMessina,Italy
FrancescaPiazza,UniversityofPalermo,Italy
RolandPosner,BerlinInstituteofTechnology,Germany
MarkRichard,HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,USA
NathanSalmon,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,USA
StephenR.Schiffer,NewYorkUniversity,USA
MichelSeymour,UniversityofMontreal,Canada
MandySimons,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,USA
TimothyWilliamson,UniversityofOxford,UK
AnnaWierzbicka,AustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra,Australia
DorotaZieliñska,JesuitUniversityofPhilosophyandEducationIgnatianum,Kraków,Poland
MarcoCarapezza,UniversityofPalermo
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Alessandra Falzone
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Indirect Reports and
Pragmatics in the World
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AlessandroCapone ManuelGarcía-Carpintero
DepartmentofCognitiveScience DepartamentLògica,Porta404,4thFl
UniversityofMessina UniversitatdeBarcelona
BarcellonaPGME,Italy Barcelona,Spain
AlessandraFalzone
DepartmentofCognitiveScience
UniversityofMessina
Messina,Italy
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Introduction
ByAlessandroCapone
DepartmentofCognitiveScience
UniversityofMessina
It seems to me that the topic of indirect reports is of great importance and has
the potential for considerably changing linguistics, by stressing the importance of
societal pragmatics and of a dialogic perspective on language. The fact that an
indirect report is normally the host of two voices, the reporter and the reported
speaker, which normally blend but which it is the task of the hearer/reader to
separate,wheneverpossible,meansthatindirectreportsarethekeytoadialogical
perspectiveonlanguage.Minimally,anindirectreportisthecompressionofamini-
dialogue;hence,inquiringintothistopicamountstoinquiringintopolyphony.The
topicofindirectreportsisprettybroad.Itincludesbeliefreportsand‘dese’attitude
ascriptions as special cases of indirect reports (as pointed out in Capone 2016).
Furthermore, one who undertakes to study this topic has to inquire into the issue
of language games (as pointed out in Capone 2016), a chapter of Wittgensteinian
linguisticsand,atthesametime,ofsocietalpragmatics.Ihavealsonoticedthatthe
connectionbetweendirectandindirectreportshastobepursuedseriouslyandnot
only because there are cases of mixed indirect reports, parts of which are marked
by the grammatical device of quotation marks. Even when there are no explicit
quotationmarks,theissueofblendingofdirectandindirectdiscoursearises.Iwould
normally take indirect reports to be mixed reports where the quotation marks are
providedimplicitly.Anyway,thisisanideawhichhastobepursuedandexplored
carefully. The very idea of polyphony, which I have embraced in Capone (2016),
seems to lead in the direction of merging the issue of direct and indirect reports.
In any case, it is good to have some studies that directly explore the connection
between direct and indirect reports. Are the differences more important than the
similarities? Is opacity semantic in direct reports while it is pragmatic in indirect
reports?Theseareimportantquestions,awaitingsolidanswers.
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It may be promising to see whether the mechanisms of indirect reports can be
very different in the world languages. How can the study of individual languages
bearontheunderstandingofthesocialpraxisofindirectreports?Thisisthecrucial
questionweaskinthisbookandwhichournumerousauthors,familiarwithoneor
moredifferentlanguages,havetriedtoanswer.Iamawarethatwhatwehavefound
outisonlythetipoftheicebergandthatfurtherworkhastobesolicitedinthisarea.
Weareadamantthatworkinginacollaborativespiritcanadvanceourunderstanding
ofindirectreportsmoreandmore.Itisgoodtohaveauthorscomingfromatleast
twoteams:philosophyoflanguageandlinguistics.Thisinterdisciplinarycharacter
oftheresearchislikelytobefruitfulinthelongterm.
Reference
Capone,Alessandro.2016.Thepragmaticsofindirectreports.Socio-philosophicalconsiderations.
Heidelberg,Springer.
Contents
PartI Philosophicalapproaches
Onthesocialpraxisofindirectreporting ..................................... 3
AlessandroCapone
SemanticsandWhatisSaid..................................................... 21
UnaStojnicandErnieLepore
Immunity to Error through Misidentification and (Direct
andIndirect)ExperienceReports.............................................. 39
DenisDelfitto,AnneReboul,andGaetanoFiorin
RepresentingRepresentations:ThePriorityoftheDeRe................... 61
KennethA.Taylor
IntuitionsandtheSemanticsofIndirectDiscourse .......................... 99
JonathanBerg
IronyasIndirectnessCross-Linguistically:OntheScopeofGeneric
Mechanisms....................................................................... 109
HerbertL.Colston
“Whenaspeakerisreportedashavingsaidso”.............................. 133
SanfordC.Goldberg
Topicsare(implicit)indirectreports........................................... 149
EdoardoLombardiVallauri
PartII Linguisticapplications
Direct and indirect speech revisited: Semantic universals
andsemanticdiversity........................................................... 173
CliffGoddardandAnnaWierzbicka
ReportingConditionalswithModals .......................................... 201
MagdalenaSztencelandSarahE.Duffy
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Pronominalsandpresuppositionsinthat-clausesofindirectreports ...... 227
AlessandroCapone,AlessandraFalzone,andPaolaPennisi
DiscourseMarkersinDifferentTypesofReporting ......................... 243
PéterFurkó,AndrásKertész,andÁgnesAbuczki
IndirectreportsinModernEasternArmenian............................... 277
AlessandraGiorgiandSonaHaroutyunian
RelinquishingControl:WhatRomanianDeSeAttitudeReports
TeachUsAboutImmunityToErrorThroughMisidentification........... 299
MarinaFolescu
Accuracy in reported speech: Evidence from masculine
andfeminineJapaneselanguage ............................................... 315
HirokoItakura
The Grammaticalization of Indirect Reports: The Cantonese
DiscourseParticlewo5........................................................... 333
JohnC.WakefieldandHungYukLee
Context-shiftinIndirectReportsinDhaasanac.............................. 345
SumiyoNishiguchi
PartIII Discourseanalysisandpragmatics
LawandIndirectReports:CitationandPrecedent.......................... 357
BrianE.Butler
TheTranslatorialMiddleBetweenDirectandIndirectReports ........... 371
DouglasRobinson
HistoricalTrendsinthePragmaticsofIndirectReportsinDutch
CrimeNewsStories.............................................................. 401
Kobievan KriekenandJoséSanders
Indirect speech in dialogues with schizophrenics. Analysis
ofthedialoguesoftheCIPPScorpus .......................................... 419
GraziaBasile
Pragmaticsdisordersandindirectreportsinpsychoticlanguage.......... 439
AntoninoBucca
Contributors
Hung YukLee HongKongBaptistUniversity,KowloonTong,HongKong
ÁgnesAbuczki MTA-DE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Debrecen, Institute of German
Studies,Debrecen,Hungary
GraziaBasile Dipsum–UniversityofSalerno,Salerno,Italy
JonathanBerg DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel
AntoninoBucca Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina,
Messina,Italy
Brian E.Butler Department of Philosophy, The University of North Carolina at
Asheville,Asheville,NC,USA
AlessandroCapone Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina,
Messina,Italy
Herbert L.Colston UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,AB,Canada
DenisDelfitto UniversityofVerona,Verona,Italy
Sarah E.Duffy Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle
uponTyne,UK
AlessandraFalzone Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina,
Messina,Italy
GaetanoFiorin University College Utrecht and Utrecht Institute of Linguistics,
UniversityofUtrecht,Utrecht,TheNetherlands
MarinaFolescu Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO,USA
PéterFurkó Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary,
InstituteofEnglishStudies,Budapest,Hungary
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