Free indirect discourse presents us with the inner world of protagonists of a story. We seem to see the world through their eyes, and listen to their inner thoughts. The present study analyses the logic of free indirect discourse and offers a framework to represent multiple ways…
In this monograph, Regine Eckardt develops a comprehensive theory of free indirect discourse, analysing speaker-oriented and other context-dependent words in terms of formal semantics and pragmatics.
"Free indirect discourse presents us with the inner world of protagonists of a story. We seem to see the world through their eyes, and listen to their inner thoughts. The present study analyses the logic of free indirect discourse and offers a framework to represent multiple way…
In this monograph, Regine Eckardt develops a comprehensive theory of free indirect discourse, analysing speaker-oriented and other context-dependent words in terms of formal semantics and pragmatics.
"Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that i…