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Whittle2016
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Whittle2016
Author(s) Eric Whittle
Title The Question of Reported Speech: Identifying an Occupational Hazard
Editor(s) Alessandro Capone, Ferenc Kiefer, Franco Lo Piparo
Tag(s) EMCA, Quotation, Reported Speech, Pragmatics
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Year 2016
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Volume 5
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Pages 265-288
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21395-8_14
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Howpublished
Book title Indirect Reports and Pragmatics: Interdisciplinary Studies
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Abstract

This essay is a short survey of several everyday concepts. It illustrates their inherent slipperiness and the futility of trying to secure them for formal academic purposes. In our studies, the concepts of ‘direct reporting’ and ‘indirect reporting’ are taken to be scientifically authoritative in some sense, but the terms used to underpin them are not. ‘Quoting’, ‘paraphrasing’, ‘reporting’, ‘saying’, ‘telling’, ‘speaking’, and ‘using language’ are employed from an everyday lexicon, which invites the quasi-scientific question: “What really are these things?” The question becomes redundant before it can be answered.

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