That is, although type c can be interpreted as indirect speech for its use of ñt, its gif-clause stays in the same position as in direct speech.
This pragmatic analysis takes into account the numerous indirect speech acts found in oral dialogs.
In direct speech deictics point to the reported speech situation, in indirect speech they point to the actual speech situation.
On an alleged connection between indirect speech and the theory of meaning.
The men also rely on socially indirect speech genres, acts, and stances, such as insults, boasts, and other competitive linguistic forms, to create homosociality.
In my view, this construction is a remnant of earlier days, when the distinction between direct and indirect speech was still blurred.
The sections on indirect speech acts, communication, and talk in interaction have no bibliographical details in the book.
Consider the traditional distinction between direct and indirect speech.