On the narrative vs non‐narrative functions of reported speech: A socio‐pragmatic study

Vincent, Diane; Perrin, Laurent

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“…On first glance, this is not surprising when we consider the research on the correlations between the functions of reported speech and age which shows that younger speakers are more likely than older speakers to use reported speech to illustrate a previous comment or idea or to express their own thoughts or opinions (Vincent and Perrin :307). However, what is particularly notable about the uses of reported speech in this study is the similarity in the content and structuring of reported exchanges among younger residents.…”

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Oral History and the Discursive Construction of Identity in Flint, Michigan

Britt

2018

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article explores the ways that Flint residents report on their encounters with various kinds of “outsiders” who are influenced by mass‐mediated images that position Flint and its residents in a certain way. Through the voicing of outsiders who engage in the circulation of negative discourses about Flint, residents then insert their own voices as they contest negative discourses about the city. Here, the images that they project about life in Flint provide a powerful counternarrative about what it means to have lived in the city during its deindustrializing period. This suggests that oral history interviews are an important site for the discursive production (and contestation) of individual and collective identities for Flint residents.

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Oral History and the Discursive Construction of Identity in Flint, Michigan

Britt

2018

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…First, reported speech has often been analyzed as sometimes having authority-and objectivity-enhancing effects in interaction (e.g. Clift 2007, Heritage and Raymond 2005, Vincent and Perrin 1999. I argue that such effects are, however, largely orthogonal to the relationship between speaker and quoted utterance that we are considering here.…”

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Nanti self-quotation

Michael

2012

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This paper describes two quotation strategies employed by speakers of Nanti, one involving grammaticalized quotatives and another involving complement-taking verbs of saying, and examines the consequences of the pragmatic differences between these strategies for two key questions in the study of evidentiality: first, the importance of degree of grammaticalization in delimiting ‘evidentials’; and second, the importance of the analytical distinction between epistemic modal and ‘source of information’ evidential meanings. Nanti use of the two quotation strategies is specifically analyzed in the context of self-quotation practices in order to isolate specific aspects of their pragmatics. This analysis shows that the lexical quotative strategy expresses that the quoted party is not only the source of the content of the utterance, but is also an ‘illocutionary source’, who is committed to the interactional force of the utterance, while the grammaticalized quotative strategy does not indicate such a commitment. The functional difference between lexical and grammatical quotative strategies in Nanti is compared with differences between lexical and grammaticalized quotative and reportive strategies found in other languages, and the Nanti results are found to be consistent with cross-linguistic tendencies towards functional differentiation of lexical quotative and reportives, on the one hand, and their grammaticalized counterparts, on the other. These facts, it is argued, motivate a distinction on functional grounds between grammaticalized reportives and quotatives and their lexical counterparts, supporting the use of grammaticalization as a criterion for distinguishing evidentials proper from evidential strategies. The commitment-augmenting function of the lexical quotative construction in Nanti self-quotation is then examined in light of the commitment-diminishing function commonly attributed to quotatives and reportives (and also found in Nanti). It is argued that both types of commitment-modulating effects emerge as implicatures from the basic information and illocutionary source semantics of Nanti lexical quotatives, and from pragmatic reasoning based on whether the quoted party is first person or third person. The fact that both commitment-modulating functions of Nanti lexical quotatives are derived from semantics of lexical quotatives elements is argued to show that the distinction between information source and epistemic modal meanings, often taken to be a pivotal notional distinction in defining evidentiality as a grammatical category, is also essential to the proper analysis of the pragmatics of evidential strategies in discourse.

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“…Niels uses reported speech, with curses in it. This gives an air of authenticity; there is a difference between claiming to be committed to sales and narrating events demonstrating the commitment (Vincent & Perrin 1999).…”

Section: H a B I T U S A S T H E P R I N C I P L E F O R S O C I A L mentioning

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Habitus as the principle for social practice: A proposal for critical discourse analysis

Scheuer

2003

Lang. Soc.

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Critical discourse analysts are often criticized for interpreting linguistic data in political contexts, placing the data in an artificial environment motivated by political agendas rather than scientific inquiry, and thereby disregarding findings that would follow from a data-internal and more empirically grounded analysis. This article argues that critical discourse analysis may gain proficiency for social analysis by adopting concepts suitable for cultural and historical analysis of socialization, as found in Bourdieu. Application is demonstrated in a study of a job interview, with close linguistic analysis; close attention is given to the applicant by drawing on evaluations after the interview and on a retrospective interview with the applicant. It is proposed that a method combining linguistic and socio-historical analysis may offer advantages to critical discourse analysis, including a more systematic approach to text-external contexts and qualified, balanced perception of the social agent as a creative yet socially determined individual.

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On the narrative vs non‐narrative functions of reported speech: A socio‐pragmatic study

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

Oral History and the Discursive Construction of Identity in Flint, Michigan

Oral History and the Discursive Construction of Identity in Flint, Michigan

Nanti self-quotation

Habitus as the principle for social practice: A proposal for critical discourse analysis

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