Reporting discourse, tense, and cognition

Reporting discourse has attracted rigorous analyses in linguistics, literary theory, cognitive psychology, sociology and ethnomethodology. This book provides analyses of controversial topics in reporting discourse like tense alternation, reporting styles, patterns and functions. After critically examining existing theories, Tomoko I. Sakita offers new theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses within the scope of actual language performance. Her analysis covers tenses that previous studies have neglected or have considered ""ungrammatical"" or ""mistaken"". Based on models of cognitive re.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Reporting discourse -- 1.2. Discourse perspectives -- 1.3. Overview of chapters -- 1.4. Data -- Chapter 2. Review and Problems of Tense-Alternation Theories -- 2.0. Overview -- 2.1. Tense-alternation theories -- 2.2. Problem: say/said alternation -- 2.3. Conclusions and directions for further research -- Chapter 3. Cognitive Backgrounds of Tense-Alternation -- 3.0. Overview -- 3.1. Tense and person -- 3.2. Interpretive processes of reporting -- 3.3. Cognitive Recollection Model (CRM) -- 3.4. Psychological involvement -- 3.5. Self-identity -- 3.6. Backgrounds of prevalence of I says -- 3.7. Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Tense and Attitudinal Contrast -- 4.0. Overview -- 4.1. Searching vs. resultative mode -- 4.2. Conflict vs. conflict-avoidance -- 4.3. Weak vs. strong attitude -- 4.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Consciousness Flow, Discourse Acts, and Tense -- 5.0. Overview -- 5.1. Discourse organization units -- 5.2. Consciousness flow in discourse -- 5.3. Consciousness flow in narrative dialogues -- 5.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Tense in Indirect Reporting Discourse -- 6.0. Overview -- 6.1. Treatments of tense in gra…