Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 43] 2024
► pp. 97–143
This chapter provides quantitative and qualitative comparisons of speech presentation in the PREST and PAST corpora. After a general overview of speech presentation in the two corpora, the functional and stylistic differences in the presentation of character speech will be discussed in two divisions: direct and indirect forms of speech. For the former, we have made two sub-corpora containing all the reported clauses of FDS and DS extracted from each of the PREST and PAST to examine how characters communicate with each other. For indirect forms, which include FIS, IS, NRSA(p) and NV, how each category contextually functions will be examined in each corpus.