4. Direct and indirect discourse in Tamil

Steever, Sanford B.

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“…While the 'only' in this formulation might have to be qualified if fuller data had been available for some of those languages, one can safely conclude that grammatically transitive verbs of saying are at least available in most or all of those 19 languages, and in most of them are probably the most commonly used kind of framing device. The same has been shown to be true in other, more intensive studies of individual languages, including Tamil (Steever, 2002) and Egyptian (Kamerzell and Peust, 2002).…”

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‘Optional’ ergativity and the framing of reported speech

Rumsey

2010

Lingua

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Section: Reported Speechmentioning

confidence: 56%

‘Optional’ ergativity and the framing of reported speech

Rumsey

2010

Lingua

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“…Despite the prevalent focus on English among variationist descriptions of quotatives, the use of reported speech can be regarded as a common feature of informal interaction and has been described in various languages, such as Japanese (Coulmas 1986), Tamil (Steever 2002), Iberian Spanish (Etxepare 2008), or Norwegian (Hasund, Obsahl and Svenning 2012). The use of constructed dialogue has also been described for German.…”

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“…Buchstaller and van Alphen 2012). Steever (2002), for instance, examined the representations of direct and indirect speech in Tamil, Coppen and Foolen (2012) investigated the development of the Dutch quotative van over time, and Golato (2002b) described the use of quotatives in the context of reporting past decisions in German. The occurrence of quotatives in other languages raises the question whether quotatives are used at similar rates across languages.…”

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Quotative Use Across Languages: The Case of New Zealand English and German

Terraschke

2019

FU Ling Lit

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Quotatives, the representation of speech, thought, sound effects or embodiments in spoken language, are a common feature of interpersonal communication. Linguistic descriptions of quotatives have predominantly focused on their use within an individual language or language variety. Little is known about how quotative use differs across languages with regard to their forms, variable content and linguistic features. Based on two datasets of informal dyadic interactions, the present research compares how quotatives are used in New Zealand English (NZE) and Standard German by describing the features of quotative use both overall and in relation to the three most commonly used forms in each dataset. The results highlight marked differences in the way quotatives are used in the two languages. Thus, in the German data, quotatives were mostly used for first person singular speakers in the past tense form to convey internal dialogue, while NZE speakers favoured the use of quotatives for direct speech in the past without clear subject preferences.

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Fictive Interaction

Pascual

2014

Human Cognitive Processing

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Language is intimately related to interaction. The question arises: Is the structure of interaction somehow mirrored in language structure and use? This book suggests a positive answer to this question by examining the ubiquitous phenomenon of fictive interaction, in which non-genuine conversational turns appear in discourse, even within clauses, phrases, and lexical items (e.g. “Not happy? Money back! guarantee”). The book is based on a collection of hundreds of examples of fictive interaction at all grammatical levels from a wide variety of spoken, written, and signed languages, and from many different discourse genres. Special attention is devoted to the strategic use of fictive interaction in legal argumentation, with a focus on high-profile criminal trials. Both trial lawyers and lay jurors often present material evidence or murder victims as speaking, and express emotions and intentions in conversational terms. The book thus establishes the role of the conversational turn—rather than the sentence—as the basic unit of language, and the role of conversation as a frame that structures cognition, discourse, and grammar.

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4. Direct and indirect discourse in Tamil

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‘Optional’ ergativity and the framing of reported speech

‘Optional’ ergativity and the framing of reported speech

Quotative Use Across Languages: The Case of New Zealand English and German

Fictive Interaction

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