| LC control no. | sh 86001065 |
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| Topical heading | Grammar, Comparative and general--Indirect discourse |
| Variant(s) | Grammar, Comparative and general--Indirect quotation Grammar, Comparative and general--Reported speech Indirect discourse (Grammar) Indirect quotation (Grammar) Indirect speech (Grammar) Reported speech (Grammar) |
| See also | subdivision Indirect discourse under names of languages and groups of languages, e.g. English language--Indirect discourse Discourse analysis Narration (Rhetoric) |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on speech that paraphrases what others have said. Works on utterances that do not explicitly state the speaker's intended meaning, and instead rely on the hearer to infer it are entered under Indirect speech acts (Linguistics). |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Indirect speech acts (Linguistics) |
| Found in | Work cat.: Direct and indirect speech, 1986 University of Wisconsin-Madison English grammar for second-language learners WWW site, March 15, 2021: direct and indirect discourse (Direct discourse is speech that is made directly from the speaker to the receiver. If you see quotation marks in a text, this is direct discourse. Indirect discourse reports on the speech of others without using a direct quotation. In other words, indirect discourse paraphrases what others have said.) Oxford companion to philosophy, 2005, viewed online March 15, 2021: indirect discourse (One paradigm of indirect discourse is reported speech: for example, 'Lambert said that Hume was a great Scottish historian.'; in indirect discourse the sense of a speaker's remarks can be captured in many different ways) |
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