0 When you use direct speech, you repeat what someone has said using exactly the words they used: --
Direct speech purports to reproduce what another person said, or even how it was said.
Early marking is found at transition sites, such as text beginning and end, story segments, and direct speech, and proceeds from text boundaries internally.
Thus, (3) contains a piece of direct speech that leads to an undisputed code-switch.
It has to be regarded as direct speech because it shows neither concord of person or tense.
In direct speech deictics point to the reported speech situation, in indirect speech they point to the actual speech situation.
Data were further identified for three textual subtypes: quoted direct speech, general reportage and columns, and letters to the editor.
Again it is just a short step from true direct speech.
Direct speech: what's it doing in non-narrative discourse?
