Publications

Publication details [#23446]

Coulmas, Florian. 1985. Direct and indirect speech: General problems and problems of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (1) : 41–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indirect speech | quote | reported speech

Language as a subject

Japanese

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The difference in faithfulness between direct and indirect quotations is said to be a matter of degree, in that indirect speech can, in addition to content, sometimes also be faithful to form. The claim is sustained by an analysis of reported speech in Japanese.