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Publication details [#12314]

Bertoncini, Elena Zúbková. 1991. Reported speech in Swahili literature. In Blommaert, Jan, ed. Swahili Studies. Essays in Honour of Marcel Van Spaandonck. Academia Press. pp. 175–197.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

literature | reported speech | text analysis

Language as a subject

Swahili

Annotation

This paper proposes to offer a comprehensive survey of the use of three kinds of speech reporting, i.e. direct, indirect and free indirect speech, in Sawhili literature, from early writings onward.