Publications

Publication details [#26800]

Holt, Elizabeth. 1996. Reporting on talk: The use of direct reported speech in conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction 29 (3) : 219–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | informality | reported speech | telephone conversation

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This conversation analytic study of transcripts of U.K. and U.S. telephone calls, characterizes direct reported speech as an efficient way of reporting previous interaction and of giving evidence for different types of claim.