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A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
[Not in series 216] 2018
► pp. 101–116

Chapter 7
Voice and point of view

Article outline
  • 7.1Introduction
  • 7.2Authorial voice in STP
    • 7.2.1Translating STP
  • 7.3Direct, indirect and free speech/discourse in LP
  • 7.4Translating speech styles
    • 7.4.1Punctuation
      • 7.4.1.1Rules for English
      • 7.4.1.2Rules for French
    • 7.4.2Tense
    • 7.4.3Word order
    • 7.4.4The translation process
  • Notes
  • Further reading on free indirect speech
References (6)
Further reading on free indirect speech
Baker, Mona and Maeve Olohan. “Reporting that in translated English. Evidence for subconsious processes of explicitation?”. Across Languages and Cultures: A Multidisciplinary Journal for Translation and Interpreting Studies. 1.2.
Banfield, Ann. 1973. “Narrative Style and the Grammar of Direct and Indirect Speech”. Foundations of Language. 10. 1: 1–39.Google Scholar
Cohn, D. 1978. Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction. Princeton: Princeton U.P.Google Scholar
Levenston, E. A. and G. Sonnenschein. 1986. “The Translation of Point-of-View in Fictional Narrative”, In Juliane House and Shoshana Blum-Kulka (eds.). Interlingual and Intercultural Communication: Discourses and Cognition in Translation and Second Language Acquisition Studies. Tubingen.Google Scholar
McHale, B. 1978. “Free Indirect Discourse: A Survey of Recent Accounts”. In PTL, 3, 2: 249–87.Google Scholar
Plénat, Marc. 1979. « Sur la grammaire du style indirect libre », In Cahier de grammaire, Toulouse, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, t. 1: 95–140.Google Scholar