Eksempler på reported speech

• 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.