‘Distancing indirect speech or thought’ (DIST) is defined as a noncanonical form of speech or thought representation which is characterized by the singleness of deictic center across both component clauses: Contrary to direct, indirect, or free indirect speech/thought, no truly separate consciousness (‘sayer/cognizant’) is represented by the current speaker (‘speaker’), even though the grammar of speech or thought representation is used...
Keywords: reported speech, distancing indirect speech/thought, deixis, scope, subjectification, grammaticalization
09/2004 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterDiscussions of reported speech have increasingly attended to mode, both the mode of the utterance represented and the mode of delivery...
Keywords: reported speech, discourse practices, multimodality, mediated activity, writing research
12/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter