0 → indirect speech specialized
1 a description of what someone has said without using the exact words used:
Chap. 4 (93-138) deals with the presentation of self and others in the story world through the use of reported speech in border-crossing chronicles.
Time reference in reported speech.
Reported speech can be used to directly challenge what a prior speaker has just said.
So reported speech is a practice by which citizens can make public hearings somewhat more dialogical.
The past tense can also be used alone to indicate sequence-of-tense, and thus to identify reported speech, in the remaining marked verbs.
So we get not just the reported speech, but how to take the reported speech - via this frame of being untrue.
The identification of the speaker is already known, and the indication of reported speech is sufficient.
In simple reported speech the associated clause is understood to have been stated, with an epistemic hedge, by the subject of the epistemic verb.
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