Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-Functional Approach

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] #65

by Lieven Vandelanotte

This author argues for a new, linguistically grounded typology of speech and thought representation in English from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Apart from direct and indirect speech/thought, the types described include the character-oriented free indirect and the narrator-oriented distancing indirect type, and two subjectified types in which reporting clauses such as I think function as hedges.

396 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009