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Wed Oct 23 2002

Books: Ling Theories: Guldemann, von Roncador (eds.)

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1. paul, Reported Discourse: Guldemann, von Roncador (eds.)

Title: Reported Discourse
Subtitle: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 52
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
 http://www.benjamins.com/
	 http://www.benjamins.nl	
 
Editor: Tom G�ldemann 
Editor: Manfred von Roncador 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 1588112276, Pages: xii, 425 pp., Price: USD 117.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229589, Pages: xii, 425 pp., Price: EUR 130.00
			
Abstract:
			
The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide
genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment
of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification
of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how
its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions
in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality,
reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the
grammaticalization history of quotative constructions. Almost all
papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse
with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding
it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language. Another central
methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the
discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large
corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing
analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many
earlier treatments. The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography
on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.


Table of Contents

Preface 
 Tom G�ldemann and Manfred von Roncador vii 
Abbreviations x 
Part I. Categories of reported discourse and their use 
1. Speech and thought representation in the Kartvelian (South
 Caucasian) languages
 Winfred Boeder 3 
2. Self-quotation in German: Reporting on past decisions 
 Andrea Golato 49 
3. Direct and indirect speech in Cerma narrative 
 Ivan-Margaret Lowe and Ruth Hurlimann 71 
4. Direct and indirect discourse in Tamil 
 Sanford B. Steever 91 
5. The acceptance of "free indirect discourse": A change of the
 representation of thought in Japanese
 Yasushi Suzuki 109 
6. Direct, indirect and other discourse in Bengali newspapers 
 Wim van der Wurff 121 
Part II. Tense- aspect and evidentiality 
7. Evidentiality and reported speech in Romance languages 
 Gerda Hassler 143 
8. Discourse perspectives on tense choice in spoken-English reporting
 discourse
 Tomoko I. Sakita 173 
Part III. Logophoricity 
9. The logophoric hierarchy and variation in Dogon 
 Chris Culy 201 
10. Logophoric marking in East Asian languages 
 Yan Huang 211 
Part IV. Form and history of quotative constructions
11. The grammaticalization of "say" and "do": An areal phenomenon in
 East Africa
 David Cohen, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Martine Vanhove 227
12. When "say" is not say: The functional versatility of the Bantu
 quotative marker ti with special reference to Shona
 Tom G�ldemann 253 
13. Reported speech in Egyptian: Forms, types and history 
 Frank Kammerzell and Carsten Peust 289 
14. "Report" constructions in Kambera (Austronesian) 
 Marian Klamer 323 
15. All the same? The emergence of complementizers in Bislama 
 Miriam Meyerhoff 341 
Part V. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse 
16. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse 
 Tom G�ldemann, Manfred von Roncador and Wim van der Wurff 363 
Language index 417 
Name index 419
			
Lingfield(s): Functional & Systemic Ling (Linguistic Theories)
		Linguistic Theories

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