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Common-sense anti-racism in book group talk: The role of reported speech [PDF]
This paper explores the rhetorical accomplishment by British book group members of anti-racist identities through their discussions of fictional texts exploring themes of race and immigration.
Benwell, Bethan, Bethan Benwell
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How does reported speech discursively construct an image of the other in contemporary political discourse in France, Great Britain and Germany? After having long been neglected (Nay, 2003a, 2003b), parliamentary studies have come in recent years to ...
Naomi Truan
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Response to Spronck and Nikitina “Reported speech forms a dedicated syntactic domain”
I am grateful for the chance to respond to this interesting and valuable study. The ubiquity of reported speech constructions in human languages is a remarkable fact about them, bearing out Bakhtin’s (1984: 143) dictum that that we “live in a world of ...
A. Rumsey
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Latvian verbs of speaking and their relations to evidentiality
The paper offers a functional analysis of three Latvian verbs of speaking used in their indicative third person forms – saka, runā and stāsta ‘say(s), speak(s) and talk(s)’ – based on the Latvian language corpus online (www.korpuss.lv) and, additionally,
Joanna Chojnicka
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Words in Motion: Slurs in Indirect Report
Slurs are pejorative epithets that express negative attitudes toward a class of individuals sharing the same race, country of origin, sexual orientation, religion, and the like.
Tenchini Maria Paola
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Reported speech as a pivotal human phenomenon: Commentary on Spronck and Nikitina
We commend the target paper (henceforth S&N) for bringing reported speech to attention in the typological space, and for making a number of highly pertinent observations. We agree that reported speech deserves to be seen as a sui generis domain or topic,
C. Goddard, A. Wierzbicka
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Managing Participation through Modal Affordances on Twitter
On Twitter, retweets function as a method of reporting speech and spreading the talk of other users. We propose that changes to the interface and mechanisms of Twitter have led to the coexistence of two complementary forms of retweeting.
Fawn Draucker, Lauren B. Collister
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This article aims at studying in what ways the three major types of reported speech, namely direct speech, free indirect speech and indirect speech, give a more or less lifelike representation of the characters' thought in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day,
Alexandra PEDINIELLI-FÉRON
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“Deux mots de lettre pour te dire que …”
This work aims at examining the characteristics of enunciative heterogeneity in a corpus composed of letters from soldiers of the Great War with substandard proficiency in the language.
Corinne Gomila
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Semantic Plasticity and Speech Reports [PDF]
Most meanings we express belong to large families of variant meanings, among which it would be implausible to suppose that some are much more apt for being expressed than others. This abundance of candidate meanings creates pressure to think that the proposition attributing any particular meaning to an expression is modally plastic: its truth depends ...
Dorr, Cian, Hawthorne, John
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