The king's script is contained inside the king's reported speech, which is contained inside the king's narrative.
Unlike other accounts of reported speech, our approach does not presuppose an 'original utterance'.
Only segments that clearly included direct reported speech, marked by intonation pattern or exaggerated pronunciation, were subcategorized in this way.
The switch from the reporting clause to the reported speech entails a deictic reorientation.
The use of like as a marker of reported speech and thought: a case of grammaticalization in progress.
Reported speech: forms andfunctions of the verb.
We have therefore offered an account of different types of reported speech which makes pragmatics central, and which does not involve the notion 'original utterance'.
In simple reported speech the associated clause is understood to have been stated, with an epistemic hedge, by the subject of the epistemic verb.
