Table of contents
Authors’ biographies
Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotatives
Part I. Discourse perspectives
Impersonal quotation and hypothetical discourse
By three means: The pragmatic functions of three Norwegian quotatives
Part II. Typological perspectives
Minds divided: Speaker attitudes in quotatives
Thetic speaker-instantiating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type
Part III. Functional and formal perspectives
On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse: A study with special reference to elliptic quotation
Quotative go and be like: Grammar and grammaticalization
Quotation in sign languages: A visible context shift
Part IV. Language variation and change
Performed narrative: The pragmatic function of this is + speaker and other quotatives in London adolescent speech
Dutch quotative van: Past and present
appendixGlossary of specialist terms for research
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Author index
Index of terms
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