‘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 GruyterThis article investigates one of the discourse functions that has been proposed for the variation in English of the position of adverbials within the clause...
Keywords: adverbial/adverbial clause, theme, framework, scope, span, constituency
05/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter