Voorbeelden van direct speech

• Indirect (embedded) directives, usually with speech act predicates such as tell, order, give orders, etc., derive their properties from direct speech acts.

• First, will he ensure that the interpreters in the secondary examination area at terminal 3 use direct speech and do not use indirect speech?

• Inverted commas are positioned so that the first one is right-leaning, and the second one is left-leaning, coming after the ending punctuation mark of the direct speech sentence.

• Among the constraints that figure in the development of be like, it is the pragmatic effect contrasting thought with direct speech that is most baffling.

• Thus, in direct speech there is only one pragmatic source, viz. the speaker.

• These factors have led me to believe that the ñt-less complex dependent sentence originally derives from direct speech.

• What follows marks a change from report to the dramatic representation of direct speech.

• Direct speech: what's it doing in non-narrative discourse?